SAN FRANCISCO: WhatsApp has been introducing new features on a regular basis to improve the security and empowering the users.
According to a report, WhatsApp would roll out two new features that would assist users in knowing the number of times a message was forwarded. These two features named – ‘Forwarding Info’ and ‘Frequently Forwarded’.
The ‘Forwarding info’ would inform users about the number of times a message has been forwarded previously. When enabled, this feature would be available in the ‘message info’ section of the app. As per the early reports, the feature can just be used for messages that have been sent by the user.
If the users want to know the number of times a message has been forwarded, they need to forward the message and then check the number in ‘Message Info’.
The ‘Frequently Forwarded’ feature is actually a label that will get displayed when a particular message is being forwarded for more than four times. Reports suggest WhatsApp is looking forward to introducing this feature to help its user understand whether the message they have received is popular or not.
Messages that have been forwarded more than four times would be highlighted as ‘Frequently Forwarded’.
In such a case, the message bubble would have a different label above the message. Both these features are currently being tested and will soon be rolled out for the users.
