WhatsApp, Meta’s fashionable messaging platform, has unveiled a brand new function that enhances the app’s search capabilities. This newest addition permits customers to go looking for messages primarily based on particular dates, in an try to supply customers a extra environment friendly method to navigate by intensive chat histories. The new ‘Search by Date’ function permits customers to decide on a particular date to seek out the messages exchanged on these explicit days. It is probably going to assist customers retrieve particular info from previous conversations extra easily versus limitless scrolling.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the function on his WhatsApp channel. The ‘Search by Date’ function is mentioned to be obtainable for all customers globally throughout Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and Web. It was reportedly noticed in beta testing again in November 2023.
To use the ‘Search by Date’ function on WhatsApp, customers have to open the specified particular person or group chat that they want to search. They must then click on on the three dots within the prime proper nook on Android telephones or faucet the contact or group title on iOS gadgets. If the app is up to date to the most recent obtainable model, they’ll discover a small calendar with a search image after they click on the common Search possibility. A pop-up calendar will then permit customers to pick out the specified date.
For occasion, in the event that they wish to return to a message from October 20, 2023, they’ll choose the identical on the pop-up calendar by date, month, and 12 months. Once the date is chosen, the chat or group will open on to messages from that day, permitting customers to additionally scroll up or down the chat as nicely. Without this function, customers would have been pressured to scroll previous months’ price of messages to get to the specified texts. With this function, it simply takes just a few clicks.
WhatsApp lately additionally rolled out 4 new textual content formatting choices globally – bulleted factors, numbered lists, block quotes and inline quotes. These joined the present daring, italic, strikethrough, and monospace formatting choices.
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