WhatsApp beta will enable customers to ahead forwarded messages to just one group at a time

The screenshots obtained by WABetaInfo present how when a message is already marked as forwarded, it’s not potential to ahead it to a couple of group and if customers strive they’re met with an on-screen message that claims, “Forwarded messages can only be sent to one group chat,”. If a consumer desires to ahead such messages to a couple of group, they might want to choose the message and ahead it once more.

In July 2018, the Facebook-owned messenger had launched a restriction in India the place customers may solely ahead a message to a most of 5 separate chats without delay. In January 2019, these restrictions have been prolonged globally.

According to WABetaInfo, the brand new single group ahead limitation had already been rolled out to some Android beta testers however the firm is now enabling the identical restrictions to extra customers once they set up WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.8.11.

This new restriction comes simply days after WhatsApp introduced the rollout of some new voice message options to a variety of Android gadgets. The new options in that replace included out of chat playback, the power to pause and resume recording, draft preview, and quick playback. Some of those options have been already out there on iOS gadgets.

Before that, WhatsApp had begun rolling out the a number of linked gadgets function that was in Beta to extra customers. With the brand new linked gadgets function, customers can entry WhatsApp on 4 completely different gadgets with out having to fret about maintaining their major telephone on-line on a regular basis, as was the case with WhatsApp Web.