WhatsApp iOS Update: Users can soon avail view-once feature on their devices

Facebook owned WhatsApp will soon bring ‘view-once’ feature for iOS users. The view once feature was earlier limited to Android users through a beta update. This new update lets users to send media files (photo/ video) to a recipient, which can only be read once.

According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp will soon roll an update for its iOS users which will enable them to use ‘view once’ feature as well as renewed in-app notification feature. The new features will be introduced in a 2.21.140.9 beta update.

The ‘view once’ feature can also be termed as disappearing message feature. As the name suggests the message is only visible for a single time for the receiver. After the receiver reads it, the message is unavailable. The feature is quite similar to that of Snapchat’s disappearing messages feature.

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However, unlike Snapchat, the WhatsApp users will not be notified when a receiver gets a screenshot of the message. On Snapchat, users get notified once a receiver gets a screenshot of the current message.

The other feature which will be included in the update is the redesigned in-app notification. This will allow the users to read the total conversation in the notification itself. Speaking in a straight way, if a user receives an in-app notification he/ she can peek into the particular chat and view the previous conversations.