The global voice message player lets users start a voice note and then exit a chat, view and reply to messages in other conversations in the app while continuing to play back the voice note.<\/p>\n
While playing, a window will be pinned to the top of the app with an option to pause or stop playing the voice message.<\/p>\n
This feature will be handy for those multi-tasking users without the time to listen to minutes-long voice notes.<\/p>\n
It does not allow for playing voice notes while the app is minimised.<\/p>\n
The image below shows what the feature currently looks like in the beta test.<\/p>\n
WhatsApp also recently added new functions to its disappearing messages feature on beta versions of the app.<\/p>\n On the official app, the feature currently only allows users to set messages to disappear after seven days.<\/p>\n WhatsApp Beta versions on iOS now also let you choose 24 hours or 90 days.<\/p>\n There is also an option to enable a “Default Message Timer” under the app’s privacy settings, which will turn on disappearing messages by default for any new chats.<\/p>\n These two new features are now available on WhatsApp Beta for iOS and WhatsApp Business Beta for iOS> The features are expected to become available on the WhatsApp Beta for Android.<\/p>\n WhatsApp states that it is not currently accepting new testers to its beta programme, as it has reached a maximum number of users participating in it.<\/p>\n However, its new multi-device support<\/strong><\/a> is open for testing by the public in a separate beta.<\/p>\n That feature allows WhatsApp users to run the app on multiple devices without requiring their smartphone to be actively connected to the Internet.<\/p>\n To try out the new feature, update to the latest version of WhatsApp and follow the steps below for your particular platform:<\/p>\n Android:<\/strong><\/p>\n iOS:<\/strong><\/p>\n WhatsApp is improving the functionality of its voice messaging feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":405527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[57456,2594,72910,72242],"class_list":["post-416780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-wabetainfo","tag-whatsapp","tag-whatsapp-features","tag-whatsapp-voice-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416870,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416780\/revisions\/416870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WhatsApp-voice-message.jpg\")
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