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- WhatsApp is busy developing a new feature that will allow you the option to send a video or photo that will disappear after the recipient has viewed it once.
- The authoritative blog WABetaInfo reports that the new function will probably be called “View Once”.
- It appears that WhatsApp is also working to implement fingerprint security.
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WhatsApp could soon include an option to send a video or photo that will disappear once it has been viewed once.
According to the authoritative blog WABetaInfo, which tracks the development of new WhatsApp features, the image will expire as soon as the recipient views the video, GIF, or photo and leaves the chat.
WABetaInfo became aware of the planned feature when it reviewed the WhatsApp 2.20.201.6 beta update for Android, which was recently released and includes references for a new feature called “Expiring Media”.
WABetaInfo thinks the new function will probably be called “View Once”, which was the way a new button was labeled in the last update.
Users will be able to choose to send an “expiring” image, video, or GIF to a contact, which the recipient can only see once.
If the recipient takes a screenshot of the image, it’s unclear whether the sender will be notified, reports the social media information center Social Barrel.
The popular social media platform Snapchat, which pioneered self-destructing messages, now offers this functionality.
Snapchat will notify a user when another user has taken a screenshot of their Snapchat photo, video, chat conversation, or story.
The “expiration” messages will appear differently in the conversation, so you can easily understand that the image is going to expire, says WABetaInfo. The platform also reported that WhatsApp plans to add a new security feature that will require fingerprints to view messages.
The two planned new features are still in development, with no specified release date.
South African WhatsApp connection
When WhatsApp was started by two former Yahoo employees more than a decade ago, the company turned to South African experts in SMS technology to help set up its “frictionless” integration.
In 2000, Clickatell, based in Cape Town, was the first company in the world to send Internet messages to mobile phones, a revolutionary technology at the time.
The company then helped WhatsApp implement its SMS-based registration process.
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