WhatsApp’s next big update thankfully doesn’t involve any sort of AI, and is instead allowing users to set reminders for both read and unread messages, a blessing to bad texters worldwide. First rumoured to be in the works last year, the feature has finally arrived in beta, a helpful tool to make it easier to stay in touch.
Stay in mind with WhatsApp reminders
WhatsApp will now send occasional notifications for messages that have not received a response. The messenger also allows users to set reminders for specific messages that they want to revisit later.
With a simple long press, users get a menu to set a reminder in either two, four, eight, twenty-four hours, or another customised time. The featured message will receive a bell tag to differentiate it. At the time of writing, the feature is currently limited to beta users.
Users can even do replicate in a group chat, and it will not notify anyone else except the one setting the reminder. As with all of WhatsApp’s user text data, the reminder data is encrypted and can not be accessed by the company either.
We’ve all been there. You get a ping from your friend. You check the message, maybe even formulate a response, and tuck your phone back in your pocket. Only for you to realise, hours later, that you forgot to hit send. This new feature, rolling out in the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.25.29 update, will help with that. There’s no word from Meta or WABetaInfo when users can expect a larger release, though the latter mentions the feature is “rolling out to even more people over the coming days.”
If this was your go-to excuse to avoid talking to certain people, you may have to find a new exploit, since this one’s getting patched.
