WhatsApp, the world’s most popular instant messaging application, came up with a feature that became a necessity for many users a few months ago. This feature allowed users to send messages to themselves. Yes; You will no longer need to use your WhatsApp chats with your friends like a notepad.
Today, there has been an important development on the subject. WhatsApp started to offer the new feature that it brought to the testing phase a few months ago to all users. Some users, who updated the iOS version of WhatsApp with the code 22.23.74 and the Android version with the code 2.22.23.77, started to actively use the self-messaging feature. (The feature is not yet available to all users.)
Here’s what WhatsApp’s new feature looks like:
With the new feature, when you tap the ‘new chat’ button on the WhatsApp home page and open your contact list, you see your own number at the top and the phrase ‘(You)’ next to it.
A message you send to yourself on WhatsApp will be shown only once:
If you send yourself a message on WhatsApp and then enter the chat page, you will see that the message has been sent only once. In other words, there will be no distinction between incoming and outgoing messages as in chats with other users.
The page with your chat lists will not change!
If you send a message to yourself, you will also see your own profile on the chats page. However, there is nothing on this page that changes the experience of using it. Your self-chat will be located in the same place as other chats. If you want, you can pin your profile and place it at the top of the chat page.
So how were we sending messages to ourselves before?
Previously, we had to opt for an indirect way to send messages to ourselves on WhatsApp. For this, we used the ‘wa.me’ link that we normally use to send a direct message to a person or group. To send a message to ourselves, we opened the “wa.me//905XXXXXXXXX” link in the browser and clicked on the ‘Start chat’ option.
WhatsApp’s self-sending feature is currently in the distribution phase. The new feature is expected to reach all users in a short time.
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