WhatsApp for Android Reportedly Testing Feature to Share Music on Status Updates

WhatsApp is alleged to be growing a brand new function for its Android app that lets customers share music on standing updates, as per the claims by a function tracker. This performance is speculated to permit customers to look, choose and seek for the music, courtesy of Meta Platforms’ current settlement with the Universal Music Group. They can faucet on a brand new button that seems on the standing replace web page to make use of this function.

Sharing Music on WhatsApp Status Update

According to the WhatsApp function tracker WABetaData, the messaging consumer is growing this function for launch on a future model of the app. It was noticed on the WhatsApp beta for Android model 2.24.22.11. Following its rollout, customers could possibly choose the songs as per their desire and put up them as a standing replace on WhatsApp.

Option to Add Music on WhatsApp Status Update
Photo Credit: WABetaData

As per the screenshot (above), the function is offered within the type of a music observe as the primary possibility on the standing replace web page. Upon tapping it, a brand new consumer interface (UI) will seem the place customers can seek for songs or particular artists. Once chosen, the music is purported to be routinely built-in into the standing replace. Users can then add photographs or movies to personalise the standing replace even additional. This function is purported to operate equally to the model current on different Meta Platforms apps equivalent to Instagram and Facebook which permit including music on standing updates.

WABetaData claims that the brand new capacity to share music on standing updates on WhatsApp for Android continues to be in improvement and isn’t obtainable to beta testers registered by way of the Google Play Beta program. An identical performance can be claimed to be in improvement for WhatsApp for iOS.

However, it’s essential to notice that whereas the moment messaging platform could be engaged on a number of new options for numerous platforms, not all of them make it to the general public launch.