For most, it has been completely unnoticed (logical considering that in the courier app blog they have not announced it), while for others it is the invention of the century. The reality is that perhaps not of the century, nor of the year, but of the month, maybe. It’s about what has been Baptized as Walkietalkie mode on WhatsApp. And it works like this.
One of the initial successes of the app was the creation of the groups to communicate. The next was to give these of Differential characteristics regarding individual messages, contemplating that we do not communicate in the same way in one environment as in the other.
Walkietalkie mode It is not a call or voice note and the key to activating it is not easily visible. Until now, if we wanted to send a message on WhatsApp we had three options: call, voice message and text.
Voice messages can accumulate and create a complex disorder in the group. Group calls only make sense if there are no more members in a group than fingers in one hand and the texts can take a long time if the message is long or if we are interested in immediacy. The solution? Activate the new mode.
Basically, it is a brief and direct call, only aimed at those who are online at that time. The interesting thing is that it leaves no trace or notifies those who are not online at that time. That makes those who did not participate in that call, do not see any label of it and the conversation remains as if nothing.
The first thing to know when activating it is that it only works in the groups, not in individual chats. Once the group is selected, you have to go to the last message and slide them up, as if we were looking for something beyond this screen. At that time a label will appear that will put “connect”.
If we select this option, the call will be made, but only for those who are at that time connected, whether three or 20. Each can speak in turn by pressing the button that will be visible, although we have not made the initial call. And then, At the end, every trace of that conversation will disappear, as if it had not existed.