WhatsApp To Add Two Big Updates For ‘Forwarded’ Message Feature

In a recent report, WhatsApp announced that it was testing latest features including in-app reverse image searches and browsing ones as a way to allow its users to detect fake news. The messaging service owned by Facebook plans to fight against fake news by enhancing the ‘Forwarded’ message feature. Accordingly, it will supplement two new features including “Frequently Forwarded” and “Forwarding Info.”

With only their names, we can easily comprehend how the two features will do to prevent misinformation. For the first feature called “Frequently Forwarded”, it shows a label that is put above the message forwarded by the same user over four times.

The second feature, “Forwarding Info”, will reveal the number of forwarded times of a message which is sent from a WhatsApp account to many other ones. To check the information, you just need to access the Message Info section by pressing and holding the transmitted message, and next, choose the (i) icon that lies on the chat window’s top.

WhatsApp confirmed that its users can only know how many times the messages are forwarded when they actually send them to other users. In addition, to determine the exact number of times the forwarded messages you receive, you need to forward these messages to accounts in your contact and go to the Message Info.

According to a report from WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is developing both of these new features which are expected to introduce in the upcoming beta update. Besides, the two features came to the beta app of WhatsApp on the Android OS 2.19.80. However, the developer hasn’t revealed whether it would update them on iOS devices or not.