WhatsApp status: visitors to the message will soon be visible
from Lars Matt 
on January 31, 2017, 18:27 | 1 comment
WhatsApp will soon offer a new feature with which it will be possible to see the visitors to its status page. This secret feature was discovered in the iOS beta.
As always, WhatsApp is busy releasing new beta versions. This time, it is not the Android testers' turn first, but this time iOS will be tested first. Now a new function is said to have appeared in the iOS beta. With this it should be possible to see the visitors of his status.
See status visitors
As you can see from the tweet, the user sees a list of visitors directly under his status. All people in the contacts who saw the message are listed here. In addition, you can see exactly when they checked their status.
#Exclusive by @WABetaInfo.
WhatsApp for iOS: you can know who saw your statuses, and when (DISABLED BY DEFAULT) #whatsappbeta pic.twitter.com/BuyijJvhX4- WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) 30 January 2017
Even more status features
In addition, the leakers are said to have found a second feature in WhatsApp's Android beta. This allows the status visitor to respond directly to the status of the user. This feature is also still hidden - we haven't discovered it yet. How WhatsApp will deal with spam messages on the status page is not yet known either.
WhatsApp for Android: reply to others' Statuses! (DISABLED BY DEFAULT).@WABetaInfo is on Twitter and Telegram only. #whatsappbeta pic.twitter.com/FAxXKD23uu
- WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) 30 January 2017
We have already tried testing these features in the iOS and Android beta. Unfortunately, we didn't find any of these features. We don't yet know when these features will officially move into WhatsApp. We are excited.
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