During this period, WhatsApp is secretly preparing a very important change that everyone who uses the messaging application on iPhone and Android should know about. I told you a few weeks ago that the American company is preparing a change for the function that allows us to publish stories.
WhatsApp wants to give us the opportunity to see previews for the links that are included in these stories by people, all in order to increase the security of the platform. Showing previews for the links included in stories helps us to understand if we are going to access a malicious website or not, or to clarify if we want to access a certain link.
The idea behind this change is not exactly new, other messaging platforms already have similar functions implemented, only that WhatsApp "moved" harder with the implementation. Even so, we are talking about a very good measure for us because its ultimate goal is to help us avoid malicious websites included in stories.
WhatsApp: Extremely IMPORTANT Change made Secretly on iPhone, Android
WhatsApp will implement everything as you can see in the image below, so that the previews for the website links show us as much information as possible. Thanks to them, we will be able to make a better informed decision about accessing a certain link, and this is ultimately very helpful.
At the moment WhatsApp is secretly testing this change in the beta versions of the iPhone and Android applications, with a limited number of people having access to it. The process itself is identical to the one that the company followed for years in a row to prepare the launch of major changes, so we are not talking about anything surprising.
WhatsApp has been at the center of a lot of criticism over time due to the lack of protection measures for people when it came to the links shared in the application. After integrating large previews for the links shared in conversations and groups, now the platform is moving forward with their integration in stories.
It is not known when exactly it will be launched this change for the messaging application, but we probably won't have to wait very long until we can use it.
