This is what WhatsApp link previews look like

Users who have updated their WhatsApp application will have noticed a striking novelty in the course of their regular communication. A function that improves the user experience when talking about certain web pages that are shared by chats or conversations in the application. And it is that WhatsApp has already activated for the main mobile platforms the link previewThis is how this feature works.

This is a feature that appeared in iOS just a few days ago, and is now coming to Android in its latest update to improve the user experience by offering more information about web pages that are sent in a message or referenced in a chat. Something that helps the receiving user to decide whether or not to click on the link to access the web page and thus be able tosave Internet data and some possible scare regarding the final content of said link.

But how do you use these previews? WhatsApp has decided to integrate its use automatically In this way, the user only has to write a message where the specific web page appears regularly.During writing, a card as a preview appears above the text box where you're typing, which helps show what this preview will look like in chat If the message is sent, this card is displayed as is in the conversation next to the lines of text written by the issuer with information such as the name of the website and part of the content to which it links

Similarly, these cards with web page preview also appear if pasted on the compose box a link pulled directly from an address bar In this way, the resulting card still shows the page name and, on certain occasions, also part of the final content of the link That is, a small imageextracted from said web page that helps to put on the track of what links to the receiver.

The good thing about this function is that it acts on almost any type of web page and content In this way it is possible to see cards appear with a used web page, or even when pasting a link to a YouTube video , in which case a frame extracted from the video in question is displayed There are also formats defined for web pages with articles , where you can see the headline of the same and one of its images, or also from social networks , which helps display an Instagram photo or the profile picture and account name of the linked user. All this without the need to perform any special task beyond composing the message or pasting the link in the writing box.

In this way the links to web pages of any kind are highlighted in the conversation, taking advantage of the small image of these cards tosee some of the content they link toAll this with the name of the web page and the content clearly visible, something that helps the most cautious users to know if they should click on the content or not. This function is already available in the latest version of WhatsApp for Android, and also for iPhone