If you are a user of the voice notes in WhatsAppyou may have been a surprise in recent days and not precisely pleasant. The last WhatsApp update has brought a change in functioning in voice messages that clearly affects its usability. And is that The visual indications that a voice message has already been heard have stopped being shown. The message is as it was before reproducing.
This is, obviously, a loss of functionality that has surprised users and has caused their complaints. The change, which mainly affect users of the application in iOSit has not been on purpose, but a resulting bug or computer failure, precisely, of the solution given to another previousas explained from the specialized media Wabetainfo. Goal He already works on a solution for voice messages, which already It has arrived at the beta channels of the messaging application.
Now they are still in green and not celestial, the reproduced audios of WhatsApp.
Another dagger to the heart. pic.twitter.com/n2c38nosk4– Lucrezia Borgia (@Pauborgia) May 17, 2025
It is not uncommon for complex software, with many functionalities, which interacts with a wide diversity of hardware and software and is used every day by hundreds of millions of people, errors that have not been planned or found in the testing phases are not provided. The truth is that WhatsApp, despite cases like this, has a quite good history.
📝 WhatsApp for iOS 25.16.77: What’s New?
Whatsapp is finally reset a fix to address to bug with listening to voice messages, and it’s available to everyone! Https: //t.co/kaztl1amakpic.twitter.com/gxegwpICTP
– Wabetainfo (@wabetainfo) May 22, 2025
As explained by the media, the bug with voice messages came with the update that solved another problem by sharing a link in a chat, group or channel. This previous failure, which prevented open links on WhatsAppalso quite remarkable, it affects a large number of users.
After solving it, the users found the problem that the application did not mark the voice messages once reproduced. When a message of this type is heard, Both the microphone iconwhich appears in the message bubble next to the profile image of the sender, As the circle that indicates the progress of reproduction, they change from the initial green to blue. Due to the bug, listening to the message no longer produced these changes. As a result, the users who did not remember it ceased to be sure whether an audio received had heard it or not.
Wabetainfo states that version 25.16.75 of WhatsApp for iOS will resolve This failure. The last available one in the App Store is the 25.15.75upload on May 13. We will still have to wait a bit to be launched for all users.