Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has become an essential part of our day to day lives. Undoubtedly, the WhatsApp is now the top social media app of the world, with over 1.5 billion users worldwide. With the ever-growing user base, in recent times, the WhatsApp messaging app has introduced several changes and new features to its platform to enhance the user experience.
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Last year, the company has introduced a “Forwarding Info” feature in an attempt to fight fake news. Now, according to the new report by WABetaInfo, a new beta update for WhatsApp on Android shows two features on forwarding messages. One adds an additional ‘frequently forwarded’ label, while the other lets users check if their messages have been forwarded.
Forwarding Info
This feature is available in the info section for messages. Now, users can see if their messages have been delivered or read. The new update will show if the sent message has been forwarded and also the number of times. As per the report, “the Forwarding Info feature does not seem available when a message is set as frequently forwarded, so when it has been forwarded 5 times or more.”
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Frequently Forwarded
As you know, the current version of the WhatsApp shows a label for every forwarded message on the top of the message. Now, the latest beta update shows the messages which have been forwarded more than four times, WhatsApp will show the ‘frequently forwarded’ label on top.
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These new features are enabled on the WhatsApp’s Android beta version of 2.19.80. It may take a few weeks to roll out to all users.