In the coming weeks, WhatsApp will let users listen to voice messages at up to 2x speed, hear them in the background, and pause while recording audio notes.
WhatsApp is finally giving a much-needed overhaul to the voice messages system on its messaging platform, with a grab bag of new features that will start rolling out in the coming weeks. Let’s start with the trick that users have been demanding for years — fast playback for audio clips. WhatsApp will soon let users speed things up with controls for 1.5x and 2x voice message playback for both originally recorded and forwarded clips.
Next in line is the ability to pause and resume while recording a message, which is a feature that should have been there from the get-go. The idea is simple — you can now take a small pause to collect your thoughts or just wait for an audible distraction to pass in order to record your message in peace. And as a neat aesthetic touch, voice messages will soon be visualized as a waveform with a green marker to show playback progress on the timeline.
What else is in the pipeline? Last week, a lucky few beta testers started receiving message reactions on WhatsApp. In the initial phase, WhatsApp is only offering a selection of six quick emotions including like, laugh, love, surprised, sad, and thanks. The situation around message reactions has spawned a whole debate on the iMessage experience across iPhones and Androids, but things are finally changing.
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