WhatsApp is working on these amazing features for Android Devices.

Kartik Gambhir
TechBrain
Published in
2 min readSep 18, 2018
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Popular instant messaging app, WhatsApp is working on two really amazing features for its Android users. One of them is “Swipe to Reply” and the other one is “Dark Mode”. Presently, both the feature are not available on the beta version, but a select number of users on the beta version may get to see the features.

This was first reported by WABetaInfo, which is a reliable source for all the updates that have arrived in WhatsApp or its beta version.

The first update “Swipe to Reply” is presently available on iOS, and is expected to come on Android. “Swipe to Reply” is simply a feature that allows users to swipe messages right to reply followed by a reply action. This is a faster method as compared to current Android’s method where users have to long press the message they want to reply to. It is not known yet if it will be an additional feature along with the long press action or will it replace it.

Second is the Dark mode update. We have been seeing this feature being introduced on other platforms like Twitter and YouTube and the mode on WhatsApp isn’t different.

For those who are unaware, Dark Mode is basically a mode which turns the platform grey. This is useful when you’re using any of these platforms in the dark to avoid any kind of strain on the eyes.

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