ready a novelty for photos, videos and GIFs

Whatsapp developers are ready to release a novelty regarding photos, videos and GIFs: the idea is to set a time deadline after which they will be deleted

In recent months, as always, the developers of Whatsapp they are continuously working on several news that could be released in the near future. One of these concerns media such as photo, video e GIF. According to what was discovered by colleagues of WABetaInfo, the app would be experimenting with the possibility of entering a time limit to view the media mentioned above.

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Whatsapp: timed photos, videos and GIFs: how it would work

This new feature appears to be present in the beta version 2.20.201.1 of Android and is an extension of the self-destructing message feature. To send photo, video The GIF it will be necessary to click on a new button inserted ad hoc. The timer because, once the recipient has viewed, the media will disappear by itself. The content will also be deleted from memory and will leave no trace. There will not even be the voice “This message has been deleted” to appear in chats, as happens now when we delete messages “for everyone”. A possible way around the function could be to take a screenshot and save the media indefinitely. The developers, however, are not excluded from releasing a detection function to deny the possibility of doing screenshot.

The multi-device function is ever closer

The function that will allow users to have the same account Whatsapp on multiple devices is closer than ever to official release. However, there are important clarifications to be made. First of all, there is a maximum of devices on which to connect an account, that is 4. Users will be able to synchronize conversations, messages and attachments on them. The official release is scheduled for early 2021, while now it will go to beta-testers.

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