WhatsApp has been on a tear lately, adding exciting feature after exciting feature. Yes, dear Telegram user, your favourite app got these features much earlier but we donāt really care. They are coming to the peopleās app and weāre excited.
Weāve seen fancy new features like the ability to send images and videos in their original quality or the ability to share our screens during video calls but this latest feature could be my favourite of all. WhatsApp is making it easier to message unsaved contacts. Halleluyah.
I have a lot of phone numbers saved in my contacts that I only ever texted once. I knew I would only text them that one time when I saved the numbers but WhatsApp made it so I had to save those numbers.
There were workarounds to this but none of those solutions appealed to me. Some involved installing a third-party app and I wasnāt keen on that. The other solution was using WhatsAppās own click-to-chat API but thatās too complex for an individual just trying to find out if a seller still has an item in stock.
Looks like I donāt have to worry about that anymore. WhatsApp has made it easy to initiate chats with unsaved numbers now.
Messaging unsaved numbers
All you have to do is start a chat by tapping on the floating message bubble on Android or the little pencil-on-paper icon in the top right on iOS. Where it says Search name or number, just type in the number you want to message and WhatsApp will search for that number both in your contacts and outside.
If the number is registered on WhatsApp but not in your contacts, WhatsApp will show you a result clearly labelled āNot in your contactsā and will give you the option to chat with that number.
Here is an example of what youāll see. In this one, I was looking to chat with the Zimbabwe Republic Police:
Quite a simple feature and yet it took more than a decade for us to get it. Itās here now and thatās all that matters, I guess.
I think WhatsApp has matured as a messaging app and most of the features we are getting are just refinements. Iām all for it.
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With Gb Whatsapp, weāve been this feature for the past 2Ā½ years ššš
You got be careful because Whatsapp is banning accounts like nobodyās business itās because they are saying the mods are not sanctioned by the company so itās actually a fraud using it
Thatās a great addition, sometime back I downloaded WhatsApp tools so that Iāll get that feature
It hasnāt matured over the years, it has started TRYING keep up.
Okayish. Inini I am actually looking forward to WhatsApp including a feature which allows me to disable everyones status, so that I will not view any statuses.
Not being unsociable. I call it āMinding my own business Pro Maxā
Weāre on the same side but I want it for data saving purposes
True saving data I have a tendency of opening statuses
Ndukutoshandisa gb kuti ndisaone ma status evanhu,you can actually remove the status tab completely, kuita kunge ukushandisa yekudhara, the craziest thing about the version im using is i can actually update it from the playstore
How do you do this chitubu
Ukanotamba nezvima settings zve gb ririko setting racho ndakariwana ikoko my using yakanzi FM Whatsapp
Not being unsociable but being unsociablešš
Funny zvinhu zvakaitwa long backā¦. Watsapp yu nid to wake up
I would love that feature as well,but currently you can āmuteā statuses,It has helped me
Hahaha good for you. At least you are able to ignore the muted statuses.
Itās great that WhatsApp is adding these features to the āpeopleās Appā,much appreciated and the more reason why Iāll never use those dubiousā¦. āWhatsApp GB,FM WhatsAppā,I personally think that their interfaces are pathetic and their sources unscrupulous
Maaan , what are you talking about? They literally have the same interface
Cant wait for group moderating features and message pinning
Also bot features just like Tg
Me too kkkk
nothing new here , yawn what a load of bollox
Me too kkkk
āYes, dear Telegram user, your favourite app got these features much earlier but we donāt really care. They are coming to the peopleās app and weāre excited.ā
The fact still is Telegram is way better than Whatsapp even if it doesnāt have cheaper bundle options like Whatsapp. IMHO is a more better productivity app not only for chatting but school, meetings etc. Donāt wish to argue about this but yea its good the feature has come to Whatsapp, other things I dislike about Whatsapp lack of useful features, its cutting off its app from older OSes which is on one of my devices (that sucks) plus the annoying pop up to accept privacy policy what what (which I havenāt done).
I guess in the end it depends on user preference, affordability of bundles etc.
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