this little novelty will help you better navigate your conversations

WhatsApp announced the arrival of pinned messages in its application to better find old important messages.

This is a rather practical function for managing long, fast-paced discussions with several people that WhatsApp announced. As reported by the American site The Vergethe Meta group messaging indicated that it would now be possible to pin messages in order to easily find them later.

In recent years, this functionality has become more popular and has arrived in messaging applications as diverse as Discord, Slack or even Messenger, the other messaging application from the Meta group. It is therefore rather logical that she in turn makes her arrival on WhatsApp. Concretely, this pinned message function will allow, for example, to highlight an address for a meeting place in order to easily find it on the said day, instructions to keep in mind or anything that may be important and risks being drowned out after dozens of subsequent messages.

A very easy to use function

As reported The Verge, the pinned messages function on WhatsApp, however, comes with some limitations. For example, messages can only remain pinned for one, seven or thirty days at most. A way to prevent messages from remaining pinned long after they have outlived their usefulness. To pin a message, users will need to hold their finger on it for a few seconds before selecting the three small dots at the top right of the screen, then the option “ pin “. Subsequently, pinned messages can be found directly at the top of the screen.

For conversations with many participants, WhatsApp will also allow administrators to decide who will have the right to pin messages, in order to avoid having too many messages saved and making it difficult to navigate. Two options are available to them: administrators alone or any user.

The pinned messages function should arrive very soon for all users. WhatsApp indicates that the deployment of the feature has already started.