WhatsApp is one of the most used and popular applications among people. It has approximately used by over 2B people in various countries. It already offers many extraordinary features but also improves the experience of its users by its new features released from time to time. And now also WhatsApp carries this trend forward as it is expected that our messaging application WhatsApp is planning to introduce some new & unique features to benefit their users. We will also give you the info about the top 10 expected upcoming features of WhatsApp that will enhance your messaging experience.
1. Hide Your ‘Last Seen’ From Specific Contacts
WhatsApp already had a feature for those people who want to hide their availability from their WhatsApp contacts by allowing them to hide their last seen. But it doesn’t allow you to hide your last seen from specific people. But now, the company is testing this new feature and has expected to launch in 2022.
2. Create Your Own Sticker
It has considered as the most fantastic feature as stickers are one of the most loved parts of this app. It has expected from WhatsApp that there will be an option by which you can create your own sticker on WhatsApp itself soon; this means you don’t need to download any extra app for that. This feature would permit users to upload a picture of their choice and convert it into a sticker.
3. WhatsApp Profile Photo In Notifications
WhatsApp has expected to bring out this feature by which users can see profile photos directly in the notifications. This profile photo notification feature has been already rolled out for some beta testers on iOS and now expected to expand the same to other WhatsApp users as well.
4. No Time Limit For Deleting Sent Messages
As of now, there is a time limit of 68 mins & 16 seconds to delete a sent message, but with the expected upcoming feature, WhatsApp users will be able to delete sent messages from any time in the past, or it may be possible that the above time limit would get extended.
5. Logout From WhatsApp
As you already know, you don’t have the option to logout of WhatsApp from your phone, but the logout feature has expected to come as it is one of the most awaited features of WhatsApp. This will allow users to logout similar to the other social media applications; this means you can easily logout instead of deleting your WhatsApp account.
6. Watch Instagram Reels On WhatsApp
You are already familiar with the Instagram reels. Reels are very popular and one of the most loved features of Instagram. Now, this feature has also expected in WhatsApp. With this feature, users can watch Instagram reels directly from their WhatsApp Messenger.
7. Buy Insurance Through WhatsApp
After the online WhatsApp payments feature, WhatsApp has expected to launch health insurance and micro-pension products in India through tie-ups with financial organizations. By this upcoming feature, users will soon have the option to buy insurance via the application in India. At first, it will sell SBI General sachet-health insurance cover and HDFC Pension schemes through their platform.
8. Message Reactions
You already know about the message reaction feature of Facebook & Instagram. WhatsApp users will also be able to react to messages with images very soon, like Instagram & Facebook. It is expected that it permits users to react to a particular message using a total of six emojis. Furthermore, users also get the feature to enable or disable the notifications for message reaction.
9. WhatsApp Community Feature
WhatsApp is allegedly working on a new community feature that is supposed to be like discord groups & channels. Please don’t confuse it with the already existing groups feature. With this new feature, group admins will get more control over the various aspects of the application. Admins will be able to make up to 10 groups inside a community and send messages to all of them at once. This community feature might be rolled out soon.
10. Read Later
Read later’ is supposed to be an improved version of the current archived chats feature on WhatsApp Messenger. Whenever you move a chat to read later, WhatsApp will not send notifications for that particular chat. It has expected that this read later feature will also come with an edit option for their users to customize settings.