WhatsAppwith more than 2 billion active users worldwide, is the most used messaging application. More than 100,000 messages are exchanged every day. 100 billion messagesaccording to data provided by the technology company Cooby. This is the equivalent of more than 41 million per hour and more than 11,000 per second. With such a volume of users and content, there is one function of the application that is essential for the smooth operation of the platform and that is the one of Draft messages now receive improved support in the mobile version.
There are a variety of situations in which people often resort to drafting a message. For example, because you prefer to send it later and have it ready, or because it is a long text that will take you a while to write. Starting a message and being able to return to it later is a facility that the application provides, but which, curiously, It is more developed in desktop and mobile apps. web that in the mobile version. This is not the most common. Generally, iOS and Android apps are the first to receive the news, but in this case it is going the opposite way.
WhatsApp mobile saves drafts, yes, but offers no indication of this. You have to remember which chat a message was started in, search for it and open it to find it and resume it. However, On WhatsApp Web and the apps for Windows and Mac it is different.
These feature improved eraser support that Show draft in chats tab. As if it were the last message that has been sent, but with an indicator at the beginning: the word ‘Draft’ highlighted in green, allowing you to immediately identify this type of message and pick up where you left off.
According to the specialized media on WhatsApp, WABetainfo, this feature, which It was launched last year for desktop appsis about to reach mobile versions. It has been seen in beta for iOS 24.18.1072 and will be rolled out to more users in the coming weeks. According to the outlet, ‘this new draft tagging system helps users to reduce the risk of losing or forgetting important unsent messagessince these chats are prioritized at the top of the conversation list based on your most recent draft activity.’
📝 WhatsApp beta for iOS 24.18.10.72: what’s new?
WhatsApp is rolling out a message draft feature, and it’s available to some beta testers!https://t.co/8E07AX3MdBpic.twitter.com/OBW1u5PZIN
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) September 5, 2024
Tagging drafts in the chats tab is also planned for deployment in the iOS version. Androidwhere ‘it will be available soon’, according to WABetainfo.