WhatsApp: WhatsApp has now introduced a Snapchat-like ‘View Once’ feature for sharing photographs and videos. This feature, which currently exists on sister platform Instagram, would let the recipient view a photo or video only after ahead of it would disappear from the chat. WhatsApp started rolling out the feature initially to iPhone customers with a new update on Tuesday, but then announced that it would be rolled out for all customers, such as these making use of the app on Android devices. The ‘View Once’ feature has been below testing for pretty some time.
However, even though the photo or video would disappear from the chat after it has been viewed by the recipient, the feature would not cease the recipient from taking a screenshot of it or screen recording it, and if this is the case, the sender would not be notified of a screenshot or screen recording.
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Users in India would not have to wait to get the feature, at least not a lot. TheSpuzz Online checked and discovered that the feature was readily available for iOS customers in India currently – version 2.21.150 – and this implies that the update would be readily available for Android customers on Google Play Store quickly. At present, the last update that WhatsApp sent out for Android was issued on July 19 without having this feature, but taking into consideration the reality that iOS customers have currently received it, Android customers can also anticipate to see this feature some time quickly. In reality, some reports have recommended that some Android customers have currently began to get the feature.
Once the feature is readily available, customers would be in a position to use it by choosing a image or video from the gallery or immediately after clicking a image or video making use of the in-app camera, and then clicking on the ‘1’ icon that seems on the correct side of the caption bar. The media sent making use of this feature would not be saved in the gallery of the recipient, even though they would nevertheless be in a position to take a screenshot, and after viewed, the recipient would not be in a position to see it once again. Not only that, but any media sent making use of this feature would not have the alternative of getting forwarded, saved, shared or starred, and the sender would only be in a position to see if the recipient has opened the media if the study receipts of each the participants are on.
Not only that but any ‘View Once’ media that is not opened by the recipient would expire in 14 days of the sender getting sent it.
Moreover, the ‘View Once’ feature would have to be chosen each time a user desires to send a media making use of it, and any ‘View Once’ media sent making use of this alternative could be restored from the backup if it had been unopened when the backup was taken. On the contrary, opened media would not be integrated in the backup.