With the rise of ephemeral content on messaging platforms, it is not surprising how new the new beta version of WhatsApp for Android devices has just arrived.
Taking into account that the messaging platform, owned by Meta Platforms, already allows messages with images and videos to disappear once they are viewed for a single time, the next step is to bring this concept of ephemeral content to the (sometimes hated) audio messages, so that once they are heard, there is no possibility of replaying or responding to them, nor forwarding them to a third party.
listen to them and disappear without a trace
This option will be useful for those who want to send confidential audio messages without leaving a trace of them later, above all, due to the possibility of including sensitive information that should not fall into third hands.
Of course, as WABetaInfo points out, this new function is currently under development, so it is not yet possible to use it even by users of the beta version, waiting for it to be functional for beta users in the near future. , and later it will arrive through a stable version update to reach all users.
They also comment that in addition to single-use audio messages, WhatsApp is also working so that this concept of ephemeral messages also reaches text messages in the future.
Enhancing confidentiality
Although there are already messaging services that allow ephemeral messages, in the case of Confide, WhatsApp is widely used by millions of users around the world, precisely 2,000 million users, according to the latest official figures that WhatsApp came to share at the time.
It will already be a matter of the development of these new functions evolving, although it must be recognized that WhatsApp has taken a liking to ephemeral elements, to the point of recently learning that they are also behind ephemeral groups, groups for specific purposes which, once their mission is accomplished, push them to disappear, as long as they are not intervened beforehand to turn them into permanent groups.
Although they are not as ambitious as Telegram, WhatsApp seems to have learned the lesson that they should not rest on their laurels so that others can pass them by.
More information: WABetaInfo
