What it’s good to know
- The newest WhatsApp for iOS replace brings a useful new function to the messaging platform.
- Customers, publish the replace, can double faucet the display to skip/rewind a video for ten seconds.
- The function is extensively in style on YouTube and Twitter, and possibilities to enterprise into the Android model of WhatsApp are seemingly.
WhatsApp has a brand new nifty function rolling out to iOS customers this week that ought to make video watching on the messaging platform hassle-free.
Early this week, WhatsApp on iOS, bearing a 24.6.77 model quantity, introduced in a brand new useful function that permits customers to rapidly ahead or rewind a video by double-tapping on the sting of their screens (through WABetaInfo). The function has been fairly in style in main video apps like YouTube and social media apps like X (previously Twitter).
Throughout the playback of movies, double tapping on both fringe of the video would fast-forward or rewind the video by ten seconds.
For now, the function is official on WhatsApp for iOS. The function’s rollout to Android units remains to be unclear; nevertheless, the video management was featured earlier in WhatsApp beta for Android in November 2023. It was seen as practical within the beta model, albeit the function did not see the sunshine of day within the steady model of the app.
With iOS customers now receiving the performance, we might quickly see it on Android telephones and tablets, too. It could be one useful function to see amongst a number of others which have popped up over the previous few weeks.
A number of the newest WhatsApp options embrace Instagram-like longer standing updates, that are additionally discovered within the app’s newest beta for Android units. One other function seen within the works is the power to cover hyperlink previews shared in messages on WhatsApp.
WhatsApp on Android can also be testing the power to transcribe voice notes inside the chats, which may be very useful in sure eventualities the place customers are unable to listen to the voice messages and wish to learn them as a substitute. The fascinating side of the function is that they’re nonetheless end-to-end encrypted and do not go away the system. Notably, the function is already reside on the iOS platform.
