WhatsApp is rolling out Swipe to Reply: Now available in WhatsApp beta for Android users

We are completely used to social messaging app rather than phone SMS. The IP-based messaging apps are mostly used messaging app than using smartphones messaging app. The platform had improved communication ways between many users. WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, iMessage etc. provide a lot of features than SMS. RCS is being rolled out in place of SMS. Users have already made the switch from SMS to an IP-based messaging app. Though, Telegram already has the feature of swipe to reply, but WhatsApp which has remains the most popular social messaging app among two billion users just released it to its new developed WhatsApp beta for Android users.

Swipe to reply
Early this year, WhatsApp has developed new features like user's search, administrators to restrict members of a group from sending messages, mute feature, mark as Read shortcut button for notifications, picture-in-picture mode, group voice and video calling etc. WhatsApp is also working on a dark mode for the Android users. Hence, swipe to reply was another feature announced to be available soon. Right now, it is available to Beta users, the latest WhatsApp beta 2.18.301. It has already been available in iOS few years ago.

Whatsapp Beta swipe to reply new feature

On Twitter, WABetaInfo posted how the feature works. Users can now quickly reply to a particular message in a chat using a swipe to reply. The swipe to reply feature is faster than the alternative gesture that exists in Android which consisted of users having to tap and hold the message to reply, and type to reply. With the new swipe to reply feature, WhatsApp automatically loads the message in the reply context as soon as the user swipes the message.

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The Beta test is already full, whereby users can download from alternative sources. The latest WhatsApp 2.18.301 beta version can be downloaded on AndroidAPKsFree.