WhatsApp groups can be a real headache: family members who don't know when to stop sending good morning images or reporting the weather there where they live, friends who don't hesitate to share everything that is trend at that very moment on the Internet, or the possible birthday parties, dinners and other events that only serve to distract us from our daily activities. Groups from which you can't leave and run away without looking bad, but now you can silence each other at the same time to get some peace.
This is a new feature that lands in the beta or test version of WhatsApp in Android and that, therefore, has yet to reach the majority of users. However, anyone who downloads this version from the Internet, or accesses the system of betatesters or Google Play Store testers can take advantage of this feature. With it, the user can mark different WhatsApp conversations at the same time, whether in groups or individually, thus performing various actions in groups. That is, mark several chats that you want to mute at once, avoiding doing it one by one.
Just access this version of WhatsApp and perform a long press on all those conversationsthat you want to mute. Thus, they are marked with a distinctive color and a checkmark.
After that, it is now possible to silence them by clicking on the speaker icon that appears at the top of the screen. Just like when muting a single conversation, a pop-up window pops up to choose how long those chats will remain silent: eight hours, a week or even a year In addition, it allows you to deactivate the option to show notifications, thus preventing unread message alerts accumulate in the notification bar.
With this feature it is much faster to mute all those conversations that are making too much “˜noise”™, without muting everything the terminal for it. It is also useful when participating in a large number of groups at once.
But the new possibility to select multiple chats, individual or group, also offers other advantages.Thus, when marking several conversations, another icon appears at the top of the screen next to the speaker to mute. This is the envelope to archive When pressed, all those conversations marked on the chat screen will go to a hidden place , the one for archived chats This is especially useful for cleaning up the chat screen without deleting content.
With this, it will be necessary to scroll to the bottom of the chat screen,finding here the section of archived conversations. All these chats are housed there, available for consultation and to review their contents on a regular basis.
In short, a feature that gives speed and comfort, above all, to users who are forced to participate in numerous groups , where muting them is the only way to avoid the constant coming and going of notifications.
Now, to access these new features you need to be betatester or WhatsApp tester in the Google Play Store, or download the latest version available from the web page of this service Otherwise, it will be necessary to wait until WhatsApp update your app for everyone.
