WhatsApp is bringing iOS-style chat previews to Android – GSMArena.com news

WhatsApp has long let you turn read receipts off entirely, but if you keep them on, there’s no easy way on Android to see what someone sent you without them knowing you’ve read it. The notification helps, unless you’ve already swiped it away or have too many messages piling up. iPhone users have had a workaround for a while now, and it looks like Android users will finally get it too. On iOS, you can long-press a conversation in the chat list to get a pop-up with its most recent messages, and doing so doesn’t trigger the blue ticks. The window doesn’t scroll, though, so longer messages or lots of them can’t be fully previewed. On Android, long-pressing a chat currently just selects it and shows the top bar with pin, archive, mute, and delete options. However, a teardown of WhatsApp for Android beta 2.26.44.12 has now revealed code for the same kind of chat previews like on iOS. Long-pressing a conversation will bring up a floating card with the latest messages in the thread, plus a refreshed context menu underneath it. WhatsApp’s chat previews on Android Peeking at a conversation this way doesn’t send read receipts. And unlike on
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