WhatsApp is working on a new function that will allow us to listen to the audios that someone sends us, while we do other things with our phones within other chats of the messaging tool. The audios can be heard even with your screen off.
For now can be tested by people who can access the beta for iPhone (like our colleague Iván Linares who has shared these screenshots with us), while it reaches the rest of the users. Even if you have an iPhone, the beta right now is not available to more people than those who are already registered.
For now, they say from WABetaInfo, there is no release date for the activation of the function in the beta of WhatsApp for Android, but it is in development. There is no information now on when this function will reach the versions that WhatsApp has on the desktop.
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How it will improve the WhatsApp experience
Taking into account the tendency to multiactivity and the very long audios of many friends and friends send that almost seem like a podcast, surely you’ve ever missed this new feature.
At present, when you are listening to an audio on WhatsApp, if you go to the main menu you can continue listening, but if you go to another chat within the app, stop short. What’s more it does not stay in the second you listen to it to be able to continue listening later from there, but returns to the beginning of that playback.
As you can see in the following screenshot, when you are listening to an audio and you go to other chats within WhatsApp, above the tool that tells you how the audio is going and that also allows you to pause it is maintained.
Telegram already has this function thanks to which you can listen to audios and stop them while you are writing or reading other chats.