San Francisco: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out a brand new multi-account characteristic on Android beta.
Beta customers will now have the ability to add extra accounts to the app, reviews WABetaInfo.
Customers can add a brand new account by deciding on the arrow icon subsequent to the QR code button.
On the identical menu, customers may swap to a distinct account.
This characteristic will assist customers to maintain their non-public chats, work conversations and different chats multi function software.
Customers can swap between accounts with out utilizing a number of units or extra apps as this characteristic retains their chats and notifications separate.
The multi-account characteristic is at the moment out there to some beta testers that set up the newest updates of WhatsApp beta for Android, and is rolling out to extra over the approaching weeks, the report mentioned.
Earlier this week, it was reported that the messaging platform was engaged on a brand new passkey characteristic for account verification on Android beta. A passkey is a brief sequence of numbers or letters that’s used to confirm customers’ identification.
Final month, the corporate had launched new security instruments on Android beta for when customers obtain messages from unknown cellphone numbers.
The platform additionally rolled out a ‘hyperlink with cellphone quantity’ characteristic on Android beta, which permits customers to hyperlink their account to WhatsApp Internet by utilizing their cellphone quantity.
In June, the Meta-owned platform had launched a characteristic which permits customers to ship high-quality movies on Android beta.
Whereas this characteristic preserves video dimensions, minor compression will nonetheless be utilized to the video, thus sending movies of their unique high quality is just not doable.