WhatsApp is at the moment engaged on what needs to be a a lot requested characteristic: assist for threaded message replies. That is at the moment in improvement, and as soon as that finishes (which can take a very long time, by the best way), it ought to make its technique to one-on-one chats, group chats, communities and channels.
With the assist for threads, when you reply to a quoted message, the thread will stay linked to the unique message, thus making certain that each one responses to it keep organized. So as a substitute of scrolling by way of a protracted checklist of particular person replies to a message, you can comply with and consider all of them in a devoted thread, as seen within the screenshot to the precise under.
It does nonetheless appear to be you may have to faucet on a reply to enter the thread – the threads will not mechanically present proper subsequent to the unique message as they do on Reddit, for instance. Whether or not this can be a higher choice in observe stays to be seen.
This might be particularly welcome in very busy group chats, the place discussions can rapidly grow to be overwhelming. This manner, each message may have its personal thread of replies and thus the myriad totally different conversations in a gaggle might be a lot simpler to comply with with out shedding any context.