WhatsApp, automatic formatting is coming: what is it for?

Profile image X WaBetaInfo WhatsApp developers are working to collect data and make the final touches to a new feature that will make users’ experience in reading and managing relevant data present within …

WhatsApp, automatic formatting is coming: what is it for?


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WhatsApp developers are working to collect data and make the final touches to a new feature that will make users’ experience in reading and managing relevant data present within a conversation more pleasant: all this will be possible thanks to the simplification of automatic formatting of chat texts. With this simple stratagem, users of the Meta instant messaging app will immediately see the most important data highlighted, without running the risk of seeing them slip away between the lines of the conversation.

According to what was reported by the experts at WaBetaInfothe function would have already been made available to some beta users through the 2.24.23.9 update for Android, already downloadable from the Google Play Store.

Automatic formatting will allow WhatsApp users to focus their attention on the most important contents reported within the chats. As regards i linkfor example, they will be underlined by default and will be immediately distinguishable from the rest of the text, as will the group mentionsfor which the new function has instead set the bold format. Not only that, given that to be even more important, i telephone numbers inserted into a conversation will even receive double formatting, appearing both bold and underlined.

It is clear that the programmers’ objective is to make the experience of participating in chats more pleasant, facilitating the identification of important data within group conversations which, more often than not, are characterized by a particularly high quantity of information if not downright chaotic.

All this with the simple creation of an interactive text that is very close to the functioning of hyperlinks on the Web: thanks to this emphasis due to the different formattingWhatsApp users will quickly understand which parts of the text are usable, as generally happens with underlined ones. When links or phone numbers scroll through the chat, these elements will immediately be recognized as clickable, prompting the user to interact with them more easily.

The new feature is currently in the final testing phase, which is why, as announced by Meta, it will be gradually released to all users of the instant messaging app in the coming weeks.