It is common for WhatsApp to end up copying Telegram functions if they see that these are successful among the users of the app created by the Durov brothers, to the point of appearing to be the guinea pig of Meta on many occasions.
Now another function is coming soon to WhatsApp and it will ring a bell if you also use Telegram. It’s about the ability to pin or pin messages so that some important content of a conversation or group is visible at all times and does not end up getting lost among so many messages.
WhatsApp incorporates pinned messages
The possibility of pin a message It is one of the most important features of Telegram. It allows you to quickly highlight some important messages so that the information is not lost and you have to search for it manually later.
At the moment it is not known when this function will be officially launched in WhatsApp, but in the latest beta of WhatsApp for Android present in the Play Store, with a number of version 2.23.3.17now you can try.
The operation, according to WABetaInfo, specialists in anticipating the future of WhatsApp, is quite simple and similar to that of the Telegram app. Selecting a message in question, in the top menu the possibility of anchoring it will appear or fix it, in the same way that the option to mark them as favorites now appears.
In it case a message is pinned and the recipient has an older version WhatsApp, the application will add a message in the conversation to request the update to the latest version available in the application store of your mobile operating system. The ability to pin messages within chats and groups is under development and will be released in a future app update.
Another of the upcoming WhatsApp novelties, in this case seen in the beta version 2.23.3.15, is the possibility of create a call shortcut touching the box of a contact within the list of your contacts. After you create a new call shortcut, it will automatically be added to your device’s home screen. This feature will help users save some time and make the WhatsApp calling process definitely faster, particularly for those people who frequently make calls to the same person and don’t want to go through the process of opening the app. and search for the contact each time.
Other functions copied to Telegram
As we said, it is common for WhatsApp to add new features that already sound familiar to those who use Telegram. For example, allowing you to use your own chat on linked devices in a future update. In this way, everything would be kept in sync and is one more way to share content between devices. This functionality would allow open a chat with ourselves, with our own phone number, to save something important, as a reminder. We can even set our own chat to the top of the list to keep everything at hand.
The file limit was also increased to make it similar to that of Telegram, more permissions were added in the groups so that the administrators had better control of them, etc.
