WhatsApp has just made sharing images on the messaging platform easier. The Facebook-owned messaging app reportedly rolled out "Predicted Upload" feature for its over 2 billion users. To check out the feature, users need to update their WhatsApp version to the 2.18.61 iOS update. 

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"WhatsApp was secretly developing for a long time a new feature for efficiently sharing images," said WABetaInfo, a website that aggressively tracks all the developments on WhatsApp.  

"You need to update your WhatsApp version to the 2.18.61 iOS update, in order to benefit from all the advantages of the Predicted Upload feature." the blog post by WABetaInfo added. 

WhatsApp is now able to predict when a photograph is going to be sent in a chat. In fact, the purpose of this feature is to upload in advance a photo to the server, said the blog.

However, the Predicted Upload feature is not working well on the Andriod version of WhatsApp. WABetaInfo believes Android users will have to wait for the next update. 

"About Android, WhatsApp is slowly enabling the feature for a few users only since the 2.18.156 stable version and it will need a lot of time.. but the feature doesn't seem to work yet, although it is correctly enabled for some lucky users," the website said. 

The Predicted Upload feature just works for unedited photos. It means if you use drawing tools, the old original photo will be deleted and the edited photo will be sent to the server only when you tap the Send button (so no prediction), explained WABetaInfo.

How to discover the feature:

To discover if the feature is already enabled for the iOS or Android users, they need to simply select an image in WhatsApp, then wait 5-6 seconds in the Edit Image section and after tapping the Send button, check if the image has been delivered to the server.