WhatsApp needs to stop making these useless features, and give us Apple Silicon support, it is only app on my Mac that's not native. Even Adobe has full on Native apps now.
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WhatsApp Now Lets You Have a Chat With Yourself
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This reminds me of a my favorite poem...Roses are red, violets are blue. I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I 🤣
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Mine does that too 😃Very useful for random notes. My wife has this habit of messaging me random things and now she will keep it to herself.
Long conversations with oneself is just thinking loud. Nothing new.
My Mother asked me as a kid who I was talking to. Those who have a good answer, I replied.
Sending messages to myself can be convenient too ☺️
My Mother asked me as a kid who I was talking to. Those who have a good answer, I replied.
Sending messages to myself can be convenient too ☺️
We used to have the right to not incriminate ourselves but thanks to WhatsApp…
WhatsApp is completing the rollout of a new feature that lets you create a private chat thread with yourself within the app that can be used to store personal notes and media.
Literally called "Message Yourself," the feature is designed to be used as a convenient place to keep things like reminders, notes, links, audio clips, photos, and video. You can also talk to yourself, but bear in mind that you'll have to supply both sides of the conversation.
The feature utilizes the same end-to-end encryption that normal WhatsApp chats do, allowing the platform to securely synchronize your private notes between devices.
The new option works in a similar way to Signal's Note to Self feature. Facebook Messenger and Instagram also let you create messages to yourself, while Slack lets you send yourself direct messages to keep notes, to-dos, links, and files handy.
In another change rolled out with the latest 23.1.75 update, WhatsApp has added a "Search by date" option to chat searches. Users can now tap search from the contact or group info menu and select the calendar icon to access a date picker.
The latest version also brings support for drag and drop to share images, videos, and documents from other apps to WhatsApp chats. In addition, the update brings the recently rolled out Accidental Delete feature to even more users.
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Can’t believe they put energy on this feature nobody will use, whereas there is still no iPad and ARM Mac app avaible. It has been in beta forever
Weird that it's only been recently implemented. Most other chat services has been able to do it for years.
I don't need an app to talk to myself, I do it all the time.
But it does seem that this update has squashed this bug:
But it does seem that this update has squashed this bug:
Soon Elon will be able to do this on Twitter, being its only remaining user. Until he fires himself.
Like Slack's personal channel. I use that all the time for temporary notes that I use to/from other slack channels. I don't use WhatsApp any more but I would have used the heck out of this feature if I had it back then.
“iMessage is the best chat client”
- half of this website that’s stuck using Apple’s SMS-era garbage app
Lol. This website does not disappoint. FWIW, WhatsApp released a few new features today that leaves me even more frustrated every time I talk with someone who doesn’t have WhatsApp.
- half of this website that’s stuck using Apple’s SMS-era garbage app
Lol. This website does not disappoint. FWIW, WhatsApp released a few new features today that leaves me even more frustrated every time I talk with someone who doesn’t have WhatsApp.
schizophrenia here we come
That's a misunderstanding of the feature.
The point is: how does one remember things using a phone? Different people have different tricks.
Using Reminders works for some things (do this at a time, or when you get home or whatever) but not as a way to briefly remember a URL or an image.
Notes works for URLs or images, but builds up a long stream of crud mixed up with material you want for the long-term.
One solution is to email things to yourself, and that's what many people of my generation do; then just delete the email when done. But younger people reflexively reach for messaging rather than email, so this sort of self-texting performs the same role for them. Especially if you can easily remove older self-texts as they become irrelevant, this is (IMHO) a cleaner faster solution than email, and one that I expect Apple will adopt in a year or two.