WhatsApp offers a new way to find your messages

The world's most used messaging app, named afterWhatsApp, now addsanother way to find your messages. It can indeed happen that you are no longer able to find a message sent in an online conversation, and when this is the case, it is very annoying.

In order to overcome this,WhatsAppalready offers various ways to find a message that we have received, or that we have sent to someone. There is search by text, or even the fact of easily being able to view media exchanged with a person or a group. In certain situations, however,this may not be enough, especially in the case where we need to find a voice message.

The algorithms currently available on various platforms still cannot find a voice message from a written search, yet transcription technologies exist. The ideal would indeed be to be able to type a word that was said in the message in order to find it, but this type of search by voice recognition is not yet very widespread. Therefore,Metahas just integrated another way to find a lost message inWhatsApp.

Search by date

The CEO ofMeta, which is the parent company ofWhatsApp, announced the novelty in a video published on hiscanal vert. The man is seen searching for an old karaoke conversation. To achieve this, he will use thedate on which he maintained the exchange, which is now a criterion that you can use in the application to find a message.

How to search for a message by date in WhatsApp for iOS?

In order to use this new type of search, you must firstclick on the profile of your correspondent,or the group in which you wish to find a message. It is then necessarypress the search button, then the calendar icon.You will then be able to select the desired date.

This method of research is also not an innovation ofWhatsAppand has been offered for several years byTelegram.WhatsAppregularly copies features of the messaging application fromPavel Durov. This is part of the usual way of doing thingsMeta, which has no problem copying the innovations of others when it suits its users.