San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp has rolled out a new feature – “Manage contacts within the app”, allowing users to add and edit contacts without leaving the app on Android.
According to WABetaInfo, the ability to add and edit contacts within WhatsApp for Android is now available to some beta testers using the latest beta version, and will be available to even more users in the coming days.
Users can check the feature’s availability on their devices by opening the contact list within WhatsApp and selecting the “New Contact” option.
If the “New Contact” option is available, it means the feature is available and they can add contacts without leaving WhatsApp.
In addition, users can also add unknown numbers to their contact list when they reach out to others on WhatsApp, without switching to the Contacts app, the report said.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp is reportedly developing a new feature that will allow users to share their status updates to Facebook stories without leaving the app.
Previously, users could share status updates in Facebook Stories, but they had to go through the extra step of manually sharing the update every time they posted something new.
But now, due to this new feature, the process can be automated for certain status updates selected by the users when the option is enabled.