This new WhatsApp feature will let you mute videos before sharing them

People at WhatsApp have been very busy lately. The instant messaging platform has rolled out several new features in the past 10 days and is unlikely to stop anytime soon. The platform is reportedly working on a new feature that would let users mute their videos before sending them to their contacts or putting them up as statuses. Apart from that, WhatsApp has rolled out advanced wallpaper and disappearing messages feature more people using Android phones. 

As per Wabetainfo, WhatsApp is now developing a mute video feature. The new feature has appeared on a beta update. In the screenshot shared by the WhatsApp features tracker, you can see the option of muting the video along with the trimming option. 

“After enabling Advanced Wallpaper features and Disappearing messages, WhatsApp is working on new features now. The next feature, available in a future update, will allow muting videos before sending to contact or your status updates,” a report by  Wabetainfo read. 

In addition this, the platform is also working on a new feature called Read Later. This will come as a replacement of the Archives Chats feature. “Read Later” is an improved version of “Archived Chats”, that includes the Vacation Mode, to keep in your archive all archived chats, even when new messages arrive.  

In the screenshot shared by Wabetainfo, WhatsApp explains the feature in a bigger banner. “Archive is now Read later,” the WhatsApp banner reads. WhatsApp is also adding an Edit button in the Read Later section. This will help users in editing their archived settings. Users can “select Chats, you can select more chats at once to quickly unarchive them” and “edit Archive Settings, to change how archived chats work”.  

All the features are currently under development and there is no official word from WhatsApp on when they could be rolled out.