WhatsApp now allows you to pause and continue recording voice notes, listen to them before sending them, and play them outside of chat

Meta-owned instant messaging company WhatsApp on Wednesday announced a slew of new features that affect its application’s voice notes. From now on, users will be able to pause and resume the recording and listen to it before sending. In addition, they will be able to reproduce voice messages received outside of the chat, so that when they hear it, they will have the option of replying to other conversations.

Among the updates that the company announced, there is also faster playback on 1.5 and 2 for listening to voice notes in less time and performing recordings as waveforms. Some of these new features were already available for two months on devices with the iOS operating system, such as pausing and resuming playback and recording outside of chat. Quick playback and out of chat was also available on some Android terminals for a few weeks. Mobile phones that don’t have the update yet will be able to install it in the coming weeks, depending on the model users have.

As always, some people won’t be able to receive updates if their phone’s OS version no longer supports that type of upgrade. The user will be able to check whether he can install it or not, it is available in the Application Store, Play Store or App Store on Android or iOS devices respectively.

According to the company, they ship every day 7 billion voice messages All over the world through this app. Some users have celebrated the update on the social network, but others have taken the opportunity to speak out against this type of messaging, as they believe calls are more casual and regret that their acquaintances have made them last longer. sends audio.

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