This is how the new feature to forward WhatsApp messages works

WhatsApp continues to be updated with new functions, some more interesting than others but all of them always useful. The last one of which we are aware, and which belongs, like many others, to the beta version of the application, is a new feature in relation to forwarded messages. That is to say, someone sends you, to your chat, a message, be it an audio or a photo, or a video, and you decide, in turn, to forward that same message to another contact or to a group of contacts.

We are not going to go into the reasons why you should forward a private message that comes to your chat, but what is new in this configuration. Before, when we forwarded a message, the new recipient of the same took it as an original message, as if that message had come from you, without intermediaries. Well, now, every time we forward a message (regardless of the format) to another group or contact, it will be accompanied by the message 'Forwarded'

How to forward a message on WhatsApp

However, the person receiving the message will not know who sent it to you in the first place. You will simply know that it is a forwarded message. The message appears automatically, once you forward the message. And to forward the message, all you have to do is hold down the message for a few moments until it is highlighted with a semi-transparent blue background and a series of icons appear at the top of the screen.There are two ways to forward the message:

• Clicking on the classic share icon to then choose 'WhatsApp'
• Or, more quickly, by pressing the arrow to the right icon and then choosing the contact you want forward the message.

How to join the WhatsApp Beta group

If you want to receive, before the rest of WhatsApp users, the new functions that the application incorporates each week, you only have to enter the Beta groupof the application. It is very simple and does not require any cost from the user. You have two ways to enter this Beta group to enjoy its news.

You can do it, from your mobile device, by opening the Google Play Store application and, then, entering the WhatsApp application page. If you go all the way down the screen, you will find a switch that you must press to enter the group. Now simply update the installation or download and install.

You can also join the WhatsApp Beta group through a web link on your computer. On the official page of the WhatsApp Beta group you will find all the necessary explanation to become a Beta Tester. This screen looks like this. All you have to do is follow the instructions that appear and that's it, you'll be able to start enjoying exclusive news on WhatsApp before other regular users.

We warn you, however, that the application you are going to have now is not the official one, so it may be unstable on your mobile , or be the cause of you spending a little more battery, as well as you will have to update it almost daily. Small prices that you will have to pay to get the new features of WhatsApp before anyone else.