WhatsApp to launch ‘Message Yourself’ feature

Have you ever used your blocked ex’s contact to write your groceries? Or do you use your best friend’s contact instead? Whatever, the answer may be. You don’t need to do that any longer.

WhatsApp has recently announced that a new ‘Message Yourself’ feature will be unveiled to users worldwide. This feature will give an opportunity to interact with oneselves. Well interacting with oneself is just a colloquial expression. The real utility of this feature is to make quick notes.

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Although there are different note making apps such as Evernote, Google Keep or the device’s inbuilt app, most people find it cumbersome. The reason behind this perception however, is not the bad User Interfaces of notes making apps, but everyone’s overt familiarity with apps like WhatsApp.

Most people are familiar with typing in WhatsApp chat boxes, while this same level of familiarity is not accorded to the note making apps. Hence, note making apps largely attract people who have a professional or academic requirement of taking notes. Note making for normal daily chores was still not a very easy task.

The absence of Saved Messages was also one of the important reasons why many left WhatsApp. Telegram has been providing this feature for a very long time. The feature provides a very quick and easy way to note something on the go.

However now WhatsApp is going to embrace this feature as well. The Save Messages feature will be launched for iPhone as well as Android. The feature hasn’t been officially released yet, but will start in a few days.

One can send not only text messages, but all kinds of other data types like PDF, Images, etc. WhatsApp is accessible on Phone as well as through a web browser on Desktops. This also provides a unique way of data transfer between a phone and a PC. A message sent  in the Saved Messages section could be accessed through any device. 

Once the new version is launched and has been updated by users, the Message Yourself feature could be easily initiated. You just need to search through your contacts on WhatsApp and find your own name. Once you find it, you can start messaging yourself.

You can even pin your chat at the stop, so you don’t need to search for it every time you have to create a note.


Discussion

  1. Mark Beck Avatar

    When I read about this new feature by WhatsApp, there was a genuine smile on my face. What could give you more joy than to have a conversation with yourself on one of the most used apps? Although it won’t be much different from the practice of making a group with yourself, but it certainly is something to get myself distracted with. Maybe I’ll rant to myself in that chat box when I can’t access my bathroom mirror. Or I could even curse my ex!

  2. I used to star so many messages on Whatsapp so that i can take account of the important messages, even went to the lengths of using an unused group chat after deleting my friends from there to use the chat as my personal notepad. Surely this feature will make everything much easier! Looking forward to seeing a feature where i can pin more than 3 groups on my chat page!

  3. Shweta Singh Avatar
    Shweta Singh

    WhatsApp did not previously have a saved messages feature, so people had to use various hacks to achieve the same result. One of these hacks involved creating a group with one friend and then asking them to exit the group, leaving the user with a group that could be used for saved messages. However, with the introduction of the “chat to yourself” feature, there will no longer be a need for these hacks. This feature is already present in Telegram and other messaging platforms. The availability of a saved messages feature on WhatsApp will make it easier for users to save important messages without having to resort to using hacks or tricks.

  4. Larry Colt Avatar

    WhatsApp did not previously have a saved messages feature, so people had to use various hacks to achieve the same result. One of these hacks involved creating a group with one friend and then asking them to exit the group, leaving the user with a group that could be used for saved messages. However, with the introduction of the “chat to yourself” feature, there will no longer be a need for these hacks. This feature is already present in Telegram and other messaging platforms. The availability of a saved messages feature on WhatsApp will make it easier for users to save important messages without having to resort to using hacks or tricks.

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