Simplified Media Sharing: WhatsApp Rolls Out New Message Menu For View Once Content

WhatsApp, the renowned instant messaging platform owned by Meta , is reportedly enhancing its message menu for sending view once images and videos, aiming to improve the app's interface. The forthcoming changes intend to refine the process of setting media as view once.

According to WABetaInfo , "Thanks to the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.18.3 update, which is available on the Google Play Store, we’ve discovered that WhatsApp has plans to change how users can set view once images and videos in the future."

As Per the report, the app will notify users that they need to press and hold the send button to designate an image as a view once message. Following this action, a fresh menu will emerge, offering the choice to send the image as a view once message.

Similar improvements are being introduced for videos. However, GIFs currently cannot be sent in view once mode, even with the new message menu. There's potential for WhatsApp to enable GIFs in this mode as the view once feature evolves.

WhatsApp's aspiration to extend the "view once" functionality to diverse media forms like text and audio messages necessitates enhanced send buttons. This approach will conveniently apply to sending any message type as view once.

The message menu innovation for sending view once images and videos is in progress and will feature in a forthcoming app update.

In related developments, reports indicate that the messaging app will soon enable users to edit captions of sent media. This feature will empower users to modify captions for photos, GIFs, documents, and videos post-transmission.