WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new functionality that allows users to users send video messages to other contacts and that is already present in the latest beta versions of the application for both iOS and Android devices.
This tool comes to replicate the operation of voice messages, but through the camera, so that users can record and send short videos up to 60 secondsas announced at the end of March by WABetaInfo.
This functionality, which was initially located in the TestFlight beta program for iOS -in version 23.6.0.73- does not allow saving or forwarding the video message and keeps this content encrypted thanks to the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) of this service. Goal.
This same portal has now discovered that WhatsApp is implementing the video messages via the latest iOS and Android beta updates; a function that will be extended to more users in the coming weeks.
Specifically, this feature is part, on the one hand, of the beta update for iOS 23.12.0.71, available through the TestFlight program, as well as the beta version of WhatsApp for Android 2.23.13.4, which can be downloaded from Google Play.
WABetaInfo has commented that those who have accessed these updates will have a new button in the bottom bar of the interface, which introduces the icon of a video camera. Likewise, it has qualified that, although these messages cannot be restarted through the application, they can be stored by means of screen recording.
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