{"id":471781,"date":"2022-11-29T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T08:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=471781"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T08:59:48","slug":"whatsapp-copies-signals-note-to-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/471781-whatsapp-copies-signals-note-to-self.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp copies Signal’s Note to Self"},"content":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature to iOS and Android users that lets them send messages to themselves, parent company Meta Platforms told TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

WhatsApp’s Message Yourself<\/em> feature puts the user’s contact at the top of the list when creating new messages.<\/p>\n

Once selected, users can send themselves reminders, notes, shopping lists, and anything else they might need to remember.<\/p>\n

Like with other messages, WhatsApp will notify the user when they send a message to themselves, and users can pin their Message Yourself<\/em> chat to the top of their conversation list.<\/p>\n

WABetaInfo<\/a><\/strong> first spotted the new feature in October 2022 while it was part of a beta test, but WhatsApp-parent Meta has now confirmed that it is now rolling out globally.<\/p>\n

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Signal’s “Note to Self” feature<\/p><\/div>\n

Before the Message Yourself<\/em> feature, users could only send themselves messages by creating a group in which they were the only member or by using third-party “click to chat” apps.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp isn’t the first messaging platform to include the ability to send a message to yourself.<\/p>\n

Signal’s Note to Self feature works similarly to WhatsApp’s Message Yourself, including allowing users to send themselves disappearing messages.<\/p>\n

Signal users can access the feature by tapping on compose and selecting the “Note to Self” option in their contact list.<\/p>\n

Users can type a message or select the “+” icon to send themselves a file such as an image, contact, or location.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Microsoft makes Windows Subsystem for Linux generally available<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp users can use the Message Yourself feature to send themselves reminders, notes, shopping lists, and anything else they might need to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":464835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[161,82931,73842,82933,30082,2594],"class_list":["post-471781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-message-yourself","tag-meta-platforms","tag-note-to-self","tag-signal","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471781"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471819,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471781\/revisions\/471819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}