Today is a good day for any professional procrastinators who begin typing out a reply in the group chat only to get distracted and forget to send.
WhatsApp, the most popular messaging platform in the world, has finally rolled out drafts.
The function, unsurprisingly named ‘Message Drafts’, was packed into the latest WhatsApp update over the weekend.
You can, of course, technically already draft messages. But now any unsent messages will have a display a small ‘Draft’ note next to them.
Drafts will also automatically be dragged up right to the top of your chats, though just below any pinned messages.
It does mean, however, you have one less excuse why you ‘unintentionally’ ghosted your date from the other night.
‘Starting a reply to a message and getting distracted… we know what that’s like,’ WhatsApp said
‘This why we’re introducing drafts! When you start a message and don’t finish it, you’ll see a draft indicator on the chat so you remember to hit send.’
WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta, has been rather busy recently. The platform only just introduced ‘lists’ that let users create custom categories as well as being able to search images.
And give the app a few years or so, and it wants to make phone numbers obsolete altogether. WhatsApp revealed last month it intends to let people add contacts by swapping usernames rather than digits.
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