Why WhatsApp notifies you if a message is being forwarded

If from this Friday you transfer a text, photo, video or audio from a WhatsApp contact to another person, your recipient will see the following message next to the content and in cursive: "Transferred ".

And if you're redirected something, you'll see the same opinion.

This is a new step that has just implemented the most used messaging platform in the world for fight spam ] and fake news a problem that worries more and more.

In addition, will prevent users from sending messages to more than 20 groups at the same time. The exception will be India – the largest business market – where the limit will be five, after this year there were several lynchings of people following rumors broadcast by the company. application .

. This system, WhatsApp, aims to facilitate the identification of message strings and inform the recipient if the information received is original.

But he has certain limits.

"Private Messaging"

"A few years ago we added a feature so that WhatsApp allows you to forward a message to multiple chats at once," the company said through its blog.

"Today, we have launched a test for limiting transmission that will apply to all to use WhatsApp."

" We believe that these changes, which we will continue to evaluate, will help maintain the original design of WhatsApp so that it remains [19459] 004] a private courier application ", explains the company [19659002] To take advantage of this new feature, users must have the latest version of the application for iOS devices (Apple) and Android.

This is one of four new policies that WhatsApp wants to put in place this year. It is also planned to create a new payment system, and offer the possibility of making group video calls, as well as stickers or stickers to decorate the messages.

Limitations

While it is true that you will see on the screen that the message has been transferred, you will not be able to see who created the original content.

In addition, the system does not notify you if your own message has been transmitted future updates because the company said it would continue to "improve" the application .

But the new option only works if the user sends the message using the "Resend" function (which appears by clicking on the message). If the text is copied and pasted directly, the system can not detect if it has been retransmitted.

Images can also be transferred using the "copy-and-paste" option, but not the audios. "We built WhatsApp to be a simple, safe and reliable way to communicate with friends and family," reads on his website.

"As we add new features, we took the precaution of trying to preserve what people say they like."

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