What you need to know about WhatsApp’s testing of the iOS “Recently Online” feature
To boost user interaction even further, WhatsApp is experimenting a new feature. The instant messaging app is reportedly testing the chat list’s “Recently Online” contact function. Users’ contacts who have recently been online and are open for engagement will be shown via this feature.
With the most recent iOS WhatsApp beta version, functionality is being released.
WhatsApp has made the “Recently Online” feature available to beta testers via the TestFlight beta Program, according to a report from WEBetaInfo. The iOS 24.9.10.71 WhatsApp beta has the functionality accessible. Some beta testers have access to the functionality right now, and over the next several weeks, additional users will get it.
The functionality can be accessed from the main contacts list, according to the screenshot that the outlet posted. Users may verify who could be accessible for instant conversation by using the overall overview of activity rather than a detailed list of all current online connections.
The ‘Recently Online’ feature on WhatsApp
Prior to this, WhatsApp released a feature in the beta channel that suggested contacts for chats. By giving users information about other users who are online right now, the new feature enhances the existing one and facilitates the beginning of new conversations. The Android 2.24.9.14 beta version of WhatsApp for Android already has this capability.
The article claims that the functionality was developed with privacy in mind and that users who have turned off their online status and last seen would not be shown.
Meanwhile, passkey support for Android smartphones was just added to WhatsApp. iOS devices may now also make use of this capability. In the next few weeks, the functionality will become accessible to all users and is now in the process of being pushed out. This new feature will make logging in easier and quicker. OTPs from two-factor authentication will no longer be needed by users to access their accounts.
