They benefit privacy, in one case through a more radical change, in the other through a small restyling of the image editor to be sent, the two novelties given as the roll-out from WhatsApp in the past few hours.
Committed to improving its still budding version of Reactions, WhatsApp instant messaging has however dedicated functional releases to its users, such as an improvement that increases the effectiveness of ephemeral chats that disappear, and another that instead makes more noticeable and accessible the image blur function.
After the last major improvement occurred in December, when the function of ephemeral messages, or disappearance, was benefited from the additional options (compared to that of the 7 days), which made the conversations disappear after 24 hours or after 90 days, and the ability to set the mode in question as the default for all new individual chats, WhatsApp has returned to work on this feature, to also add the possibility of keeping some messages that may be considered important received under active “vanishing mode”.
In the meantime that this improvement is completed, being still in development, Menlo Park has started the roll-out, which should be completed within 24 hours, both in the beta and in the public versions, of a further implementation to the message function that disappear, thanks to which the automatic saving in the gallery is deactivated (ie the “multimedia visibility” option on Android and the “Save to camera roll” option on iOS) of the media, photos or videos received when the messages that disappear.
WABetaInfo – who reported on this news – specified that, in any case, it is always and still possible to manually save the media in ephemeral chats, in the way in which it is always done on iOS while, on Android, it would depend on some versions of the green robot the presence of a similar function to manually save multimedia files.
Another novelty given as in distribution, in the beta 22.8.0.73 of WhatsApp for iOS (and, for some people, also on WhatsApp beta for Android), concerns, in the editor for editing the images to be sent, the tool for blurring of a part of the image which, in the stable version of the chat app, is located at the top right, in the color bar that appears by selecting the pencil icon and which, with the improvement now in roll-out, instead moves – with more prominence – bottom right, where it appears after two new thicker pencils.