Glimpse of ‘Ignore Archive Chats’ seen in WhatsApp, change in the place of ‘Archive Chats’ also

Facebook’s instant messaging app WhatsApp was spotted testing a new vacation mode (‘Vacation Mode’) in October last year. This feature will give WhatsApp users more control while archiving chats. This feature has once again been spotted in testing in the latest Android beta build under the name ‘Ignore archived chats’ before the release of Vacation Mode.

Apart from this, the place of dedicated archived chats tool has also been changed in beta update version 2.19.101 of WhatsApp Android. Now this tool is visible in the main menu of the app’s homepage. This feature is currently live for all those users who are on the latest beta update of WhatsApp Android.

No major changes or new features are seen in the new beta update. The only notable change in the beta update is that the Archive Chats tool can be accessed by clicking the three-dot icon on the right side of the homepage. Android-2-19-101-whats-new/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>WABetaInfo According to the report, WhatsApp is testing the vacation mode under the new name of ‘Ignore Archived Chats’. This feature will prevent archived chats from being automatically unarchived even after new messages arrive.

Let us tell you that this feature can be activated by going to Settings > Notifications > Ignore archived chats. This feature is still in the development phase, so even users who have downloaded the latest beta update will not see this feature.

The thing to note is that the ‘Ignore Archive Chats’ feature is slightly different from the vacation mode that was being tested in October last year. Vacation mode prevents archived chat from being unarchived only when it’s muted. At the same time, ‘Ignore Archive Chats’ prevents both muted and non-mute chats from being unarchived.