WhatsApp Introduces Message Quoting and Reply Feature-How to use it
Social media experience is getting more smoother day by day. After Facebook has acquired WhatsApp, WhatsApp has gone through a number of changes and adding some great feature. Last time WhatsApp had introduced the WhatsApp Desktop app for computer and also the teaser of WhatsApp Video Call. Though WhatsApp video call still not launched, in between this WhatsApp has enhanced the text chatting experience by adding a new feature. The new feature is the like same feature that Facebook had added years ago. The new feature is WhatsApp Message Quoting and reply option. Now you can quote a specific message and make a reply regarding that message. The same as Facebook in message reply option. But here it looks like the forum conversation by quoting someone’s message and reply.
WhatsApp Message Quoting and reply feature is only available in android platform, neither the Web nor iOS. But you need to update your WhatsApp android app to 2.16.118 or higher to avail this WhatsApp Message Quoting and reply feature.
WhatsApp message quote and reply feature is available for both personal chat as well as group chat. Now when you are arguing with someone you can quote any particular message, not only this you can also make a reply regarding old message which we often become late to reply in group chat.
So how to use this WhatsApp message quoting and reply ?
How to use WhatsApp Message Quoting and Reply Feature
- First long press on a specific message that you want to quote and reply
- Then tap on the reply option like the above pic
- Now type your message and send
- Your message has been quoted and it will look like this
This is something great feature Facebook-owned WhatsApp has introduced. But the point is that the receiver or the recipients of the group must have WhatsApp version 2.16.118 or higher, otherwise, he will see it as a normal message, not the quoted message. He or She will not understand that the reply was targeting his/her a specific message. So Ask your friends to update their WahtsApp and also share this news with them so they can start using this new WhatsApp Message Quoting feature.
