WhatsApp starts testing long-awaited scheduled messages on iPhone – 9to5Mac

After years of waiting, WhatsApp is finally making one of its most-requested messaging features available to select iPhone beta testers. Here are the details. Scheduled messages are almost here While Meta doesn’t generally break down active user figures by platform, Mark Zuckerberg said in April last year that WhatsApp had more than 3 billion monthly active users worldwide. Ironically, despite being used by more than a third of the world’s population, WhatsApp still lacks some features competing platforms have offered for years. Case in point: the ability to schedule messages. Earlier this year, WABetaInfo reported that code references in WhatsApp’s beta suggested the company was working on a message scheduling feature, although it wasn’t available for testing at the time. Now, according to the site, the feature is finally rolling out to select iOS beta testers, less than two weeks after making its debut on Android beta. Image: WABetaInfo Here’s how the feature works, per WABetaInfo ‘s report: Users can schedule a message from the chat interface. After typing the message into the chat composer, they need to tap and hold the send button. WhatsApp opens the schedule message screen with a date and time picker. Users can scroll through
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