As of: March 1, 2024, 4:53 p.m
By: Teresa Toth
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With regular updates, WhatsApp is constantly improving its user-friendliness.
A new feature could make searching for messages much easier.
Munich - WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging services - even though there is always criticism of massive security gaps.
Most recently, consumer advocates even announced that they wanted to take legal action against Meta, the company behind WhatsApp.
However, this should not diminish the popularity of the app.
On the contrary, WhatsApp tries to score points with its users by continually introducing practical functions.
A new one is now to follow.
The new WhatsApp function has already been hinted at in the past few weeks
According to a report from the portal
smartdroid.de
, the function in question is designed to simplify the search for messages within the chat.
It goes on to say that the feature has been hinted at over the past few weeks and has now officially been rolled out for internal search on Android.
Another feature that WhatsApp rolled out some time ago allows users to share and send high-quality photos and videos as documents.
Endless scrolling to find messages on WhatsApp could be a thing of the past with a new feature.
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Almost everyone knows how time-consuming and nerve-racking it can be to fight through your own chat chaos to find a specific address, a special message or a special photo.
But with the new feature that could change.
This allows you to search messages by date.
Although searching for individual messages is already possible, it was initially only possible using keywords.
The new WhatsApp function was said to have been in development as early as October
In October of the previous year, the blog
WABetaInfo
reported on Meta's plans to implement a new search function for news by date.
At that time the feature was still in the development phase.
More than four months later, the feature now appears to be fully developed - the endless scrolling could soon come to an end.
However, a recent change to WhatsApp may not please some users: the app no longer works on all smartphones.
Meta takes another step towards a more user-friendly WhatsApp with a new filter option.
The Internet company is also trying to close previous security gaps, for example by deactivating certain functions.
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