WhatsApp for Android Will Let You Send Up to 30 Audio Files at Once, Sharing UI to Be Revamped: Report
WhatsApp for Android Will Let You Send Up to 30 Audio Files at Once, Sharing UI to Be Revamped: Report 33202e
By Jagmeet Singh | Updated: 8 January 2019 17:19 IST
WhatsApp for Android presently lets you send one audio file at a time 33d6q
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WhatsApp is reportedly testing a redesigned audio files section in beta
The new section on WhatsApp also said to bring audio previews
WhatsApp could also show album art for audio files
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WhatsApp for Android is reportedly getting a redesigned section for sending audio files. The new redesigned audio files section is said to have the ability to add as many as 30 audio files at once. Presently, WhatsApp allows s to send only one audio file at a time. The new change is said to be a part of a recent WhatsApp for Android beta, though the redesigned audio section is likely to debut sometime in the future. The redesign could as the next major update on WhatsApp for Android days after the instant messaging app got the picture-in-picture (PiP) feature for the masses.
WABetaInfo WhatsApp presently allows s to send only one audio file at a time.
The redesigned section also reportedly lets s preview the audio and image (if available) of the file before sending. Notably, WhatsApp is already playing the audio files once you tap on them. It, however, seems that the new update could let s play or pause the audio files by tapping the play button next to them. There could be a preview of album art associated with the listed audio files.
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WABetaInfo says that the redesigned audio files section is a part of the WhatsApp beta for Android version 2.19.1. However, the new experience is reported to be enabled sometime in the future, and is currently disabled by default. We weren't able to spot the described changes in the beta version.
The arrival of the redesigned section on WhatsApp is likely to boost the number of audio files shared among spotted testing a feature to let Android s play consecutive voice messages one after the other. That feature was said to come into action when the app detects two or more voice messages in a series.
As we mentioned, WhatsApp recently updated its app for all Android s WhatsApp Web last month.
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