After removing it without giving explanations to users, WhatsApp It is gradually re-intro-intrudging an option that gives the possibility to choose whether or not to delete the badge which concerns the counting of unread messages on the screen icon every time the application is restarted. The function is already available for Android and the Beta Tester of iOS.
What it is about
Call “Clear Badge“, the update gives the opportunity to have”a greater control On the badge of the initial screen allowing you to choose between two options to cancel the Badge count ” and manage notifications of the chat of the initial screen as explained by the experts of Wabetainfo. But how exactly does it work? If a user, for example, has five unread messages, the badge will display the number five: when WhatsApp opens and none of those five messages will be read, at the end of the application that badge will disappear.
How to activate
The new option, in fact, gives the opportunity to decide whether only the new messages received will be counted before WhatsApp was open or not. “In essence, this functionality guarantees that users are notified only new messages not read through the Badge of the app and not the older ones that have already been recognized “. On the one hand, this function is glad by many users who complained “Stress from not not read notifies“When WhatsApp always remembered, with the number, the chats do not see. On the other hand, however, it will be necessary to remember independently to respond to those who sent us one or more messages.
In order to activate it, just go to the settings, notifications, and the word “shocking badge” will appear: “The Badge of the Home screen is completely eliminated after each opening of the app“, The developers write. On the contrary, not activating it, those who wish to have the count of all the not yet read messages, WhatsApp gives the opportunity to keep this count active even after opening the application.
The other news
“WhatsApp is introducing another feature in the chat tab that allows users to mark all conversations as read with a single action.
This will help users quickly delete notifications without having to open each chat individually“, explains Wabetainfo. As mentioned, at the moment only Android and Beta Tester that use Apple products have the opportunity to choose on the badge but in the next few days the definitive enlargement to the whole public will arrive.