With 2 billion users, WhatsApp is the most widely used instant messaging application in the world, with different functions to make the user experience more complete, including individual chats, groups, calls, video calls, among others.
However, Meta, the parent company of the app, does not stop developing new tools for its users, that’s why he’s working on a new feature so you can message yourself.
Why would we need to send messages to ourselves? As the report published on the website of Xatakaon WhatsApp it has always been possible to send messages to yourself for a long time, by adding yourself to contacts, using a link or with a group.
Internet users used these tricks to save notes for themselves and it is a fairly common practice in the applicationso common that the company’s engineers decided to develop a function specifically for this.
Details about the function for you to send messages to yourself
After releasing the beta for Android 2.22.24.2 update, WhatsApp is now launching a test by sending “messages with yourself” to some beta testers.
After updating to the latest version of the Android app, some testers noted that WhatsApp now offers this feature to send messages to themselves.
Simply, WhatsApp only highlights the chat with your own phone number using a different title “Me (You)”. Also, this new feature is also available for some beta testers after installing the update for iOS 22.23.0.70.
Testers have also noted better synchronization of messages within chat with your own phone number for some time now. If you send a message to chat with your number, it will always sync with your other linked devices.
This function should reach the definitive versions before the end of the year.