WhatsApp will soon let you prevent frequently forwarded messages in group chats

Image credit: WABetaInfo

We all know that feeling when one of your family members forwards random messages into your WhatsApp group chat that you’ve probably seen a million times, which is why WhatsApp’s upcoming feature is a feature that will finally put an end to this situation.

In the near future, WhatsApp will be integrating a Frequently Forwarded Messages feature that is able to detect, well, frequently forwarded messages. Once a message is forwarded more than 5 times, it is labelled as a frequently forwarded message and you’ll be able to stop these messages from reaching you when the new feature is out.

This feature can be found in Group Settings — when it’s available — so you can choose to stop others from sending frequently forwarded messages to the group, which in certain situations can prevent spreading of fake news. However, WABetaInfo did mention that the WhatsApp user can still copy the forwarded message to be sent into the group.

On a side note, WhatsApp has finally brought in audio picker in its 2.19.89 beta version that allows users to play audio before sending it to others. Moreover, WhatsApp users can now send up to 30 audio messages at once, similar to the current limit of images that can be sent at once.

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