Whats up Added a new button to express reactions. This option has been added to those recently announced.

It should be noted that the app released the Android 2.22.8.3 beta two weeks ago, where six different emojis were prompted to react to messages.

These first six reactions are the same ones that belong to Meta and that are already on Facebook, namely “Like”, “I like this”, “Smile”, “Surprised”, “Sad” and “Thank you”.

Recently, WABetaInfo defined Implemented through the Google Play Beta Program, the app is a new update that integrates a button with six reaction options.

Although this section is not accessible, the plus (+) sign suggests that the user can react to messages using an emoji other than the ones mentioned above.

This new version of Message Reacts is under development and currently it is unknown what new graphics the app plans to introduce and the release date for beta testers.

Photos and videos in temporary chats will be deleted automatically

Another innovation is that the application will automatically delete sent and received files. casual chats, Like photos or videos to guarantee privacy experience in these conversations.

In the version of the Google Play Beta Program for Android 2.22.4.14, pYou may find that the platform automatically disables the option to save files in such chats.

This means that when enabling the ephemeral chat option, multimedia files are not automatically saved to the phone’s gallery, but must be disabled for the app to continue with the usual saving process.

This option defined by WABetaInfoIt only affected files received through these conversations, as users can continue to save chat screenshots to the gallery.

The novelty is that the company has now implemented these changes in the visibility of multimedia files for all iOS and Android users.

Also, when a temporary chat is deleted, The app will no longer automatically open a window where you can select ‘Save to Gallery’ for files received via temporary chat.

The app notifies users that they need to turn off the temporary messages option to store files such as images, videos or GIFs in these chats.

This limitation has just been implemented, so users who want to save temporary chat files have time to do so before this latest update to the messaging app arrives.

While WhatsApp rolled out temporary messages that disappear after a certain period of time at the end of 2020, in the summer of 2021 it introduced a function that makes photos and videos disappear immediately after viewing.

How to turn ad hoc chats on or off

If you want to activate the function in an individual chat, you need to open the conversation, tap on the name of the person, then “Temporary messages”, then “Continue” and finally “Activated”. To disable the option, repeat these steps but hit “Disabled”.

If you want to enable the function in a group chat, you have to follow the same steps, only the admin can do it. So whoever is running the group will need to open the WhatsApp group chat, tap the name of the group, then select “Temporary messages”, continue and select “Enabled”. To disable it, you need to do the same, but at the end hit “Disabled”.