WhatsApp now out there on Put on OS for beta testers

WhatsApp has launched an official app for Put on OS, 9to5Google studies, giving beta testers of its Android app the flexibility to ship textual content and voice messages from their wrist. The performance was added with model 2.23.10.10 of the beta Android app, which additionally reportedly incorporates hints that the service may quickly let Android customers edit beforehand despatched messages. The Put on OS app reportedly helps smartwatches together with the Pixel Watch and Galaxy Watch 5, 9to5Google notes.

Android Police notes that the Meta-owned messaging service beforehand supplied a smartwatch app for Android Put on previous to its Put on OS rebrand, however says that it was finally discontinued on account of an absence of adoption. Since then, Put on OS customers have solely been ready to answer WhatsApp messages by way of their smartwatch notifications — they haven’t been in a position to ship messages each time they please.

That adjustments with the Put on OS app, which lets customers browse latest chats, scroll by way of message histories, and reply utilizing textual content or voice.  There are a few tiles out there together with one to entry contacts and one for voice messages, and a complication exhibiting the variety of unread messages sitting in your WhatsApp inbox. Android Police notes that though you possibly can ship messages to any present conversations, there’s at the moment no possibility to start out a brand new chat from the Put on OS app when you’ve by no means despatched a WhatsApp contact a message earlier than.

Organising the Put on OS app entails coming into an eight-digit code from the watch into WhatsApp in your cellphone, and WABetaInfo notes that WhatsApp’s multi-device help implies that messages accessed by way of a smartwatch ought to nonetheless be protected with end-to-end encryption.

I can’t think about many individuals can be utilizing Put on OS as their main technique of sending WhatsApp messages, but it surely’s a fantastic choice to have for these moments the place you want to hearth off a fast message out of your wrist. If you wish to be a part of the Android beta, you are able to do so by way of this hyperlink.

This model of the Android app additionally gives hints that WhatsApp may quickly let customers edit despatched messages, permitting them to clear up any typos or different errors that will have slipped by way of. WABetaInfo notes that comparable hints have already appeared within the iOS app, and that the function is already out there to a restricted variety of beta testers of the online app. If the online app is something to go by, messages can be editable for round quarter-hour after you ship them.