WhatsApp for Android now includes a new shortcut to search chats.
These first months of the year are being very intense within WhatsApp, since the messaging client owned by Meta has not stopped including new features in the beta version of its Android app from the beginning of 2022.
Thus, after updating its instant messaging platform with long-awaited features such as audio playback in the background or a new interface for voice calls, now WhatsApp Beta for Android has just been updated with a new feature that will make it easier for you to find messages.
WhatsApp on an Android mobile
This is the new WhatsApp shortcut for message searches
As the guys from the specialized media outlet WABetaInfo tell us, the latest Beta of WhatsApp for Android, with version number 2.22.6.3, incorporates a really useful new shortcut for message searches.
WhatsApp had been improving the contact information of the chats for some time and now, as you can see in the screenshots that we leave below these lines, when you access the profile view, both in private chats and in groups, you a new shortcut appears at the top with the title Look for what will allow you search for messages in that conversation in a quick and easy way.
Until now, to search the message history of a chat you had to click on the menu button located at the top right of the app and click on the option Look for.
Once this direct access is pressed, you will return to the chat you are in and the WhatsApp search view will open, through which you can simply locate a specific message typing part of your text in the search bar.
This new functionality of WhatsApp is only available, at the moment, for users of the Beta versionso, if you want to test both this and future features before anyone else, we recommend that you sign up for the beta program of this messaging client by following this simple tutorial.
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