Accumulate messages waiting to be read in WhatsApp, Telegram, an email client and other applications and communication services between people has been something much more widespread than we would think for some time. In my case, I confess that I have scared more than one person by showing them counters of this type that reached five digits at some point in my life. I can’t scare them as much now… but only because they’ve gotten used to my excesses in that sense.

Be that as it may, there are many circumstances They can cause these messages waiting to be read counters to get out of control and it’s generally much easier to bring up the same problem and suddenly find yourself inundated with messages than it is to take the necessary steps to fix the problem, reduce the counter to zero, or at least to a really noticeable amount. And again I speak from my own experience.

The problem is that what for me is an integral part of my idiosyncrasy there are many people who have it much worse. In some cases, it can cause some concern, but in other, more extreme cases, it can even cause some anxiety, especially if a person feels unable to do a complete cleaning at some point, but at the same time needs to be notified of new messages. at the same time. I’ve seen this happen especially with people who started the process of cleaning the latest stuff backwards.

Fortunately, Meta seems to be aware of this issue, and as WABetaInfo discovered, WhatsApp is testing a feature to mark all messages as read. In addition, its operation could not be simpler, because as you can see in the image above, it will only be necessary to enter the menu, tap on the record enabled for this purpose, and all the blue bubbles in the application will immediately disappear. with a counter of pending messages.

However, it is not entirely clear how this feature will affect the information received by the people who sent said messages. Will they have a double blue check when they are marked as read? Or will they still show as unread but no longer count towards the overall conversation count in the app? It’s still too early for that, it’s even likely that Meta hasn’t made up her mind yet. Be that as it may, if you’re in the beta program of WhatsApp for Android, this feature started rolling out in version 2.24.18.11.