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With the updated voice note features, WhatsApp has become more seamless for its users.

WhatsApp is all set to make its voice messaging experience for its user more useful by adding six new features. While it has started rolling out for some users, more and more people will start availing of this feature in the coming weeks.

Back in 2013, Whatsapp launched the voice messaging feature first, and it brought huge changes in the way people use the app. Voice note upgradation enhanced speed and functionality for users in order to have more expressive communications.

Will Cathcart, Head of Whatsapp at Meta, said while speaking about WhatsApp’s popularity claims that about 7 billion voice messages are being sent daily. On Wednesday, he further tweeted that a voice message is very quick, reliable, highly expressive, and personal. With the addition of six new tools, the use of voice note experience became even better. The company announced that it had introduced six new tools for voice messages for its users and all of them have a different purpose.

We're adding new features to make voice messages on @WhatsApp even better.

Updates include draft preview, ability to pause/resume recording, out of chat playback, resume playback where you were, and waveform visualization.

Excited for people to try these soon! pic.twitter.com/RRBTJI8jS3

— Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) March 30, 2022

Here is the List of Six New Voice Note Features for Android Users

1. Out of chat playback: This feature will allow you to listen to any voice message even if you are not in the chatbox, similar to watching a YouTube video shared on Whatsapp. It also facilitates reading and responding to other WhatsApp messages while listening to any voice sent by anyone. It appears like a bar on top of the app.
2. Pause/ Resume recording: Now, while recording a voice message, you can pause in-between and then resume it while sending any voice message. Before you press the microphone option, you cannot stop recording in-between for gathering your thoughts before you speak.
3. Waveform visualization: This is a small change in looks where it shows a visual representation of the voice message sound, assisting you in following the voice recording.
4. Previewing the message before sending: You can now preview your voice note before sending them.
5. Remember playback: While listening to any voice note, if you pause, you can now resume from where you left after returning to the chatbox.
6. Fast playback of forwarded voice messages: You can now play the voice message rapidly at 1.5X or 2X speed if you are in a hurry. You can do this both on forwarding messages and regular messages.

So, with all these new features rolling out, no of WhatsApp voice messaging users will increase even more. Isn’t it?

Sources:

businessinsider.in
news18.com

YouTube made a good announcement on Wednesday for iOS 15+ users on Tweeter. The company said that its picture-in-picture mode for YouTube TV on iOS devices with iOS 15 or more is available now.

iPhone & iPad users 🔊

We’re happy to share that picture-in-picture is now rolling out to your iOS 15+ devices. Simply select a video to watch and swipe ⬆️ from the bottom of the screen to return to the device's homepage. The video can scale down and move across your screen.

— YouTube TV (@YouTubeTV) March 30, 2022

In February, YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohon had vowed on The Vergecast that the YouTube picture in picture mode was on its way to getting available for iOS 15+ users. This feature was available for Android users for many years, but now iOS users can also avail this feature.

YouTube Picture in picture mode will facilitate iOS users to watch YouTube TV even after navigating away from the YouTube TV app. For example, suppose you are watching your favorite match on YouTube TV but want to check your Twitter account to know about people’s reactions to an incident that just took place in the field. In such cases, this picture-in-picture feature comes handy.

But the PiP feature is not available for all users of the YouTube app but premium subscribers. The feature is still in its testing phase, and if you are a premium subscriber, you can try this feature till April 8th.

In February, Google had said to MacRumors that it is planning to enable the PiP feature for non-premium subscribers but does not have any update regarding that. However, we can hope for the feature to be available for all iOS users, whether premium or not in the coming months.

Sources:

TheVerge.com
9to5google.com