WhatsApp is changing forever With the arrival of two new icons added to existing icons such as the flag icon, lock icon or waves icon. These new indicators come to replace a very useful indicator that has been in the Meta app for many years.

It is useful to know when each of them will appear: this pair of icons cannot be clicked and they will not take us to a WhatsApp function. So, although they are merely informative, they are more important than they seem. We show them to you and tell you what they mean..

Farewell to “writing…” WhatsApp is changing a traditional aspect of its app forever

we say goodbye a traditional WhatsApp indicatorA complete farewell to “Typing…”, which has been giving us information on the topic for years: This change first came in the beta version and is also rolling out to other users’ mobile phones.

Until now, when we messaged our contacts, we saw a small indicator under that person’s name. This signal, or whatever we wanted to call it, indicated that the user on the other end of the chat was typing a message.

On the contrary, when we created a message in the app’s text field, it appeared to our contacts. And he acted great, though they thought so on WhatsApp icon is a better solution to indicate to the user that they will receive a message soon.

He’s not the only one who disappeared: Also, when we send or receive a voice note, a note appears indicating that the voice clip has been recorded. Both texts give way to icons, or rather replace them, but now appear elsewhere on our mobile screen.

Although there are text indicators right below the name of the person we’re chatting with, these new icons They are less intrusive: You’ll see these in the chat itself, below the last message, and where the next message will appear. And yes, two symbols make us predict what’s to come:

• ellipsis icon: Your contact is writing a message.
• microphone icon: You will receive a WhatsApp voice or voice memo.

As we mentioned at the beginning, clicking on them has no effectThese are informative only. This does not mean that they are not useful like the old textual indicators, and now they are more intuitive in icon form.

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