WhatsApp added a new message menu to view images, and videos at once

WhatsApp, the popular Meta-owned instant messaging platform, is reportedly working on a new message menu for viewing images and videos at once. These changes are being made to improve the interface of the app.

The app is looking for a new way to set photos and videos in one viewing. Currently, there is an icon within the caption bar that allows users to set the media to be viewed at once.

WABetaInfo reports, “Thanks to the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.18.3 update, which is available on the Google Play Store, we’ve learned that WhatsApp plans to change how users view images and videos in the future.” How can you see once?

As per the report, the instant messaging app will inform users that they need to press and hold the send button to set the image as a View Once message. After the press and hold action, a new menu will appear, allowing the user to choose to send the image as a visual message once.

The Meta-owned company is making similar improvements for videos as well. However, currently, GIFs cannot be sent in View Once mode even with the new Messages menu. There is a possibility that WhatsApp may enable GIFs in this mode in the future as the View Once feature continues to evolve.

WhatsApp’s plan to expand the “view once” feature to different media types, such as text and audio messages, has prompted the need for a better send button. This would be the most convenient way to send any type of message as a one-time view.

A new message menu to send images and videos once viewed is under development and will be available in future updates of the app.

In related news, the instant messaging app is also reportedly starting to allow users to edit media captions after sending them. This means users will be able to change the captions of photos, GIFs, documents, and videos they send.