
WhatsApp launched a brand new characteristic on Friday, the place customers can embrace temporary music clips of their Standing updates, paying homage to the Myspace period.
Standing resembles Instagram Tales and permits customers to share photographs, movies, and textual content that disappear after 24 hours. When creating a brand new Standing, customers can faucet on a music word icon to select from thousands and thousands of accessible songs. They will put up music clips of as much as 15 seconds for photographs and as much as 60 seconds for movies.
The launch of music clips follows guardian firm Meta introducing comparable capabilities to Instagram, the place customers can add songs to profiles, Notes, and posts.
WhatsApp’s characteristic is analogous, however with a key distinction: Music shared on Standing is end-to-end encrypted, which means solely associates can see the songs. WhatsApp itself can’t view the songs that customers share.
WhatsApp has began to roll out the brand new characteristic globally and can proceed to broaden availability over the approaching weeks.