And more news that will arrive sooner or later to WhatsApp, the popular messaging service, owned by Meta Platforms.
If days ago we echoed that this popular messaging platform will make it easier to see the status updates shared by contacts without having to go to the Status tab, now we know via WABetaInfo that WhatsApp also works to reveal the content behind a shared URL in any of the status updates shared by our contacts.
Knowing in advance what is behind a shared URL in a State
And it is that the company works on the enriched previews of the links, which basically consists of cards that accompany the shared plain text URLs, showing both the featured image, if applicable, as well as the title, the description and again the URL of the links that our contacts have included in their status updates.
This will allow us to know in advance the content of each shared URL without risking it when entering, and it will probably encourage more users to open the shared content knowing that it is safe.
Now, by the time this feature arrives, Contacts who share links in their status updates will need to wait a few seconds for the corresponding cards to be generated, otherwise they will just share the plain text URLs to others.
This is a novelty that the messaging platform will apply to both mobile applications and desktop versions of the platform.
In the case of Android, although it already offers a little more information, it is expected that with this change, the enriched preview cards will be more complete.
With this we will avoid joke situations or be victims of misleading links that can cause any security damage.
At the moment it is not known exactly when this novelty will arrive, although the new cards are beginning to be seen in the beta versions of some WhatsApp clients, so it will be a matter of a short time before this novelty becomes available to all users.
