WhatsApp has began rolling out a function to allow you to chat with your self. Sending messages to your personal account is usually a solution to preserve a bit of knowledge simply accessible, proper subsequent to your different WhatsApp conversations.
Called ‘Message Yourself’, the function lets customers ship notes, reminders and purchasing lists to themselves on WhatsApp.
On Monday, the Meta-owned immediate messaging app introduced the rollout of the brand new messaging function that may attain all its Android and iPhone customers within the coming weeks. It was initially examined with some beta testers, WhatsApp beta tracker WABetaInfo reported in late October. The firm has confirmed to TechCrunch that the function has begun rolling out globally.
Users will see their contact on the high of the contacts record on WhatsApp after they create a brand new chat. Tapping that contact will take them to the chat display they will use to ship messages to themselves.
Although the native function to message your self is new on WhatsApp, some customers have already been utilizing a workaround for a while. You may already ship messages to your self utilizing the app’s ‘click to chat’ function. Nonetheless, the brand new providing removes the extra steps that customers wanted to self-chat utilizing the wa.me URL.
Users may pin their self-chat messages to the highest of the dialog record in the event that they don’t wish to search them of their broadly polluted chats record.
WhatsApp rival Signal has a function named Note to Self that addresses the identical use case — it enables you to create messages for private use. However, not like WhatsApp’s newly launched function that’s accessible from the highest of the contact record on the app, Signal doesn’t counsel your personal profile on the high of the recipient record. Users want to look and choose the contact entry ‘Note to Self’ to make use of the function.
Similarly, neighborhood platform Slack has a dedicated area titled “Jot Something Down” to let customers ship notes to themselves.
Telegram additionally presents a related function known as Saved Messages that lets customers bookmark any vital messages in addition to save their notes and reminders that may be accessed sooner or later. Messages as soon as saved could be accessed from the highest of the chats display. However, Telegram customers initially have to entry the function by tapping the hamburger menu on Android or by way of the settings menu on iOS.