WASHINGTON: Facebook-owned WhatsApp now lets you mute contact and group chats forever, rather than just for eight hours, a week, or a year.
According to details, the popular messaging service is enabling a feature called ‘Always Mute’, which replaces ‘1-year’ option when muting a chat. The option was under development since last year and now the feature is finally rolling out to beta users.
The new feature is available in version 2.20.201.10 of the app; however one does not necessarily need the latest version of the app to get the feature as this could be a server-side update.
WhatsApp is also rolling out a redesigned storage management page which will give users a rough idea as to what is taking up space on their device by showing large/forwarded files and suggesting files for deletion.
The company is also testing a new feature that allows users to search for specific messages by date. The feature will provide users with a date filter when searching for messages.
Under development for Android, the feature will enable users to search for an image on the web, especially one that has been frequently forwarded or forwarded more than four times.
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