Mobile

WhatsApp Now Lets You Send Messages When Offline

The biggest messaging platform in the world, WhatsApp, has just added the ability to click send on a message without a connection.

The update to the platform means that when you click send on a message when offline, it will be queued and sent as soon as your device regains a connection.

Prior to this, the send button would be unclickable, and you would have to wait until the phone reestablished a connection to hit send.

Now, multiple messages can be queued, and will be automatically sent when an internet connection returns.

The WhatsApp update, version 2.17.1, has also brought a redesigned storage usage screen so users can manage a phone’s storage space and clear memory-hogging photos and videos from specific chats.

You can access this new section in the Settings tab under Data and Storage Usage.

WhatsApp’s new message feature is a small, but useful update, one that dating apps might take inspiration from.

Simon Edmunds

Simon is the former editor of Global Dating Insights. Born in Newcastle, he has an English degree from Queen Mary, London and after working for the NHS, trained as a journalist with the Press Association. Passionate about music, journalism and Newcastle United.

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