WhatsApp Is Reportedly Rolling Out a Settings Search Bar to Beta Testers

WhatsApp has reportedly begun rolling out a characteristic that can make it simpler for customers to navigate the settings part on the iOS model of the app as a part of the newest beta launch. Over the years, the Meta-owned messaging app has added a number of new options and choices, permitting customers to customise its performance and their privateness settings. The new search bar may help them seek for particular settings, as a substitute of combing via the entire choices on WhatsApp.

Spotted by WhatsApp characteristic tracker WABetaInformation, a new search bar for the settings part is now rolling out to beta testers on the newest model of WhatsApp for iOS. It ought to already be accessible to customers who’re operating WhatsApp for iOS beta model 23.4.0.73, however the characteristic tracker states that testers on different 23.4.0 builds also needs to have the ability to see the brand new search bar. 

The search bar seems above the consumer’s profile picture on the settings web page, in accordance to a picture shared by WABetaInformation. Users can kind in particular phrases like “Photo” to see settings choices underneath Storage and Data or Privacy (for his or her profile photograph), or kind “Notification” to see settings associated to chat and group chat notifications sounds and vibration choices.

WhatsApp’s new search bar is discovered within the settings menu
Photo Credit: WABetaInformation

The characteristic might assist aged customers, or customers who’ve simply begun to use the app, discover some generally used settings simply. While customers presently have to spend a couple of minutes looking via the settings to discover the proper toggle or possibility, typing it into a search bar might allow them to discover it instantly. However, there is no phrase on when this characteristic will make its means to customers on the secure model of WhatsApp.

Meanwhile, the characteristic tracker additionally states that WhatsApp has begun testing the flexibility to report standing updates on WhatsApp for iOS beta model 23.4.0.74. Readers may recall that the messaging service began testing the report characteristic for statuses on the beta model of the app for Android telephones final month. The new possibility will permit customers to report content material that’s in violation of the WhatsApp Terms of Service. While statuses are protected by end-to-end encryption, reported message content material is distributed to WhatsApp for moderation, as per the app’s privateness coverage.