Mark Zuckerberg recently called himself in an interview with WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart to the media WABetaInfo. The Facebook founder took the opportunity to tease out new features to access the service.
In response to a question from our colleagues on the issue of multi-device support that WhatsApp can provide, he wanted to be very clear by saying “ Let them arrive soon Concretely, you will be able to use instant messaging on your PC or tablets without an active internet connection on your smartphone. This is good news for everyone and especially for iPad owners who did not previously benefit from a dedicated app.
Invisibility mode will be published
The Facebook founder also says: It’s been a huge technical challenge to have all your messages and content sync properly across all devices even when your phone battery is dead, but we fixed this issue and can’t wait to release it soon! »
The manager also took advantage of this interview to tease out some new features that should also be appreciated. Thus, if the disappearance of messages can indeed be activated in a particular discussion thread, then this idea can be generalized to all exchanges. ” We’re about to start rolling out “Invisibility Mode” that lets messages in all your discussion threads disappear so that your WhatsApp experience becomes ephemeral. ‘ Mark Zuckerberg explains.
Likewise, the Show Once option will allow you to send the content and make it disappear as soon as the person sees it. We don’t have a specific timeline for publishing these options but we can imagine that if the head of Facebook sticks to it, it’s because the work is already very advanced.
As a reminder, WhatsApp has been affected by Controversy At the outset with regard to the management of personal data. This has benefited from competition, especially applications Signal and Telegram which has seen an increase in downloads at an exponential rate.
