It has become easier to identify forwarded messages on WhatsApp

WhatsApp has started rolling out a new feature that will let the user know whether the message received has been forwarded or not. This Android-starts-labelling-forwarded-messages-news-1864567″ target=”_blank”>Feature Preview We already got WhatsApp on Android beta app. In this feature of WhatsApp, mainly all forwarded messages will be labeled ‘Forwarded’. With this, any user will know whether the message has been written by the sender himself, or whether the message sent by another user has been forwarded. The new WhatsApp feature is being made available to Android and iOS users worldwide. It is believed that through this feature the company is trying to control spam messages for which its platform is being widely used to send. Let us tell you that WhatsApp has 1.5 billion monthly users worldwide and about 20 crore people in India are connected to this platform.

Introducing the new feature, WhatsApp said, “Starting today, WhatsApp will tell you which messages have been forwarded.”

Only last week, a glimpse of ‘Suspicious Link Detection’ feature was seen on WhatsApp. It is designed to highlight the presence of unsafe links in the message. To stop the spread of false messages on the app ‘Send Messages’ permission feature Has also been brought. With its help, group admins can ban sending messages to all group members.

Get WhatsApp ‘Forwarded’ feature in this way
It is worth noting that to see the ‘Forwarded’ label, you must have the latest version of WhatsApp. This label appears directly above the message, so users can tell whether the message sent to them is forwarded or newly composed. Apart from this there is no option to disable this label. The meaning is clear, the user sending the message will not be able to remove this label on his own behalf.

WhatsApp spokesperson informed Tech News by Careers Ready that this feature is being rolled out for Android and iOS users. It will be made available to users around the world in a few days. There is no doubt that this is a very effective feature to identify the messages being forwarded on the WhatsApp platform. But if the user still wants, they can send the text of any message by copy-pasting it. It will be sent as a fresh message and will not be labeled as forwarded.