WhatsApp is planning to add a nifty new feature to its Voice Notes feature. After introducing the ability to listen to audio recordings in the background, the Meta-owned messaging platform is now testing a way to easily pause and resume recording voice notes. Here’s how it will work.
One recent report from WABetaInfo suggests that WhatsApp added voice recording pause/resume feature as part of its latest Android beta (2.22.6.7). This capability was previously introduced in WhatsApp for iOS and the desktop version.
With this feature, you can now press the pause button in the middle to stop recording a voice note. Then you can resume audio recording by tapping on the microphone icon that appears in the center. And once you are satisfied with the result, you can send it to the recipient.
Currently, you can only stop recording a voice note. You can only restart and not pause voice note recording in the current implementation. But that’s about to change, and here’s a look at the new feature in action:
This feature will help you record audio in one take and also allow for longer recordings. You will always be able to know what you previously mentioned, so there will be no room for error. In addition, it will allow you to save time, which is not possible otherwise.
Other novelties are coming
The ability to pause and resume voice recordings is also available on WhatsApp Business Beta for Android. However, it is unknown when it will arrive in the stable version of the application so that all users can try it.
You should know that this is not the only feature that WhatsApp is testing. It also plans to introduce a new Communities section soon, which was spotted by WABetaInfo. The latest information reveals that it will be a new tab, which will replace the camera section on WhatsApp. Other changes, such as new visual tweaks to the camera UI, message reactions, and more, are also set to arrive in 2022.
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