WhatsApp now obtainable on Put on OS for beta testers

WhatsApp has launched an official app for Put on OS, 9to5Google reviews, 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 ultimately discontinued because of an absence of adoption. Since then, Put on OS customers have solely been ready to reply to WhatsApp messages through their smartwatch notifications — they haven’t been in a position to ship messages at any time when they please.

A neat choice for sending messages in a rush

That modifications 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 obtainable 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 present no choice to begin a brand new chat from the Put on OS app in case you’ve by no means despatched a WhatsApp contact a message earlier than.

Establishing the Put on OS app includes getting into an eight-digit code from the watch into WhatsApp in your telephone, and WABetaInfo notes that WhatsApp’s multi-device assist implies that messages accessed through a smartwatch ought to nonetheless be protected with end-to-end encryption.

I can’t think about many individuals shall be utilizing Put on OS as their main technique of sending WhatsApp messages, however it’s an incredible choice to have for these moments the place you have to fireplace 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 through 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 related hints have already appeared within the iOS app, and that the function is already obtainable to a restricted variety of beta testers of the net app. If the net app is something to go by, messages shall be editable for round quarter-hour after you ship them.