After receiving a major backlash for change in its privacy policylinkandfacing an exodus of users to other IM platforms, WhatsApp has sped up thepace of adding new features to the platform.
Over the past few months, the company has rolled out several new features.Now, according to a recent report by WABetaInfo, that Mark Zuckerberg, CEOof Facebook, and Will Cathcart, Chief of WhatsApp, have confirmed that themessaging platform will soon get multi-device support for using the app onmultiple devices at the same time.
In addition to this, Zuckerberg has also confirmed that WhatsApp will soonget a ‘disappearing mode’ across all chat threads which will allow users toenforce disappearing messages on all of their WhatsApp chat threads.
[image: WhatsApp Disappearing Mode and View Once Mode]
This feature is more of an extension of the already available seven-daytimer feature. The likes of Telegram and other IM apps allow users to setthe timer for a few seconds to a fixed number of days.
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Furthermore, the report claims that WhatsApp is also planning to add a‘view once’ feature. As the name suggests, this will allow users to sharemedia files like photos and videos that can be seen by the recipient justonce and after that, it will disappear. Facebook has already introducedthis feature to Instagram and Facebook Messenger.
The exact date for the rollout of these features is not yet known.
