Over the course of time, messaging apps have tremendously changed the way digital individuals and consumers communicate. It has evolved as hubs for brand-based services and has provided invaluable data on what consumers are interested in and what they are buying. The brand has not relented either, as it explores various ways to ease communication within individuals on a consistent basis. In simple terms, WhatsApp has emerged the messaging app of choice in emerging markets.
In their latest builds to make its platform both convenient and fun for users, the Facebook-owned-app has released a new feature for its Android beta tester. The feature allows users to quote a media message, including your own message or a text and write a comment on such message. This is likened to twitter’s ‘Quote’ feature and Facebook’s ‘Share Post’ feature.
Users will first need a particular message to quote. The next is to long press the message, after which the delete, copy, reply, star and forward options will appear at the top. Select the reply button, and a preview of the quoted message is shown with a small box to enter the reply. Next is for the user to reply and send.
A user’s comment will appear on the top as quote and the original message will appear with the person’s name and the colour identifier he or she has in the group. One thing is that the feature identifies you if you have been quoted. So, if you want to reply to that message, you would know who quoted your message.
WhatsApp will colour code each person’s in a group chat with different colours, which makes it best suited for a group chat. Anyone can tap that attached quote to move to the corresponding message quickly: WhatsApp scrolls up automatically and highlights it in blue then lets it fade away. That’s nice if you want to recall in which context a certain message was sent.
This feature should solve a problem that affects the flow conversation in WhatsApp groups. Often, you had to copy the text of the person who had said something in the group to reply them. And if there are too many people typing at the same time, the message was often lost.
The feature also makes it simpler to refer to old messages.
The feature appeared first in the Android Beta 2.16.118 but now it’s being released to all WhatsApp users in both iOS and beta Android.
OMOBOLAJI DAVID-OJUMU
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