WhatsApp will soon let your friends send you VIDEO messages 

DAILY MAIL

And you thought voice notes were annoying! WhatsApp will soon let your friends send you VIDEO messages 

• A new video message feature is in the latest beta updates for iOS and Android 
• It will allow users to send their friends short videos of up to one minute long 

We all have that friend who insists on flooding our phone with three-minute voice notes.

But things could soon get a lot worse, if the latest WhatsApp leaks are anything to go by.

WABetaInfo has spotted a new video message feature in the latest beta updates for iOS and Android. 

The feature will allow users to send their friends short videos of up to one minute long.  

‘Since a video message is recorded and sent in real-time, it offers a sense of immediacy compared to a pre-recorded video that can be saved for being sent later,’ WABetaInfo explained. 

The tool was spotted in the WhatsApp beta for iOS 23.12.0.71 and WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.13.4.

A screenshot shared by WABetaInfo suggests the tool will work alongside voice notes.

To send a voice note, users currently hold the microphone icon in the bottom right of chat. 

However, in the beta version of WhatsApp, tapping on this icon turns it into a video camera icon, allowing you to record video messages. 

‘When you send or receive a video message, you need to enlarge it by tapping on the video once if you want to listen to the audio, as shown in the attached screenshot,’ WABetaInfo explained.  

While users can already send their friends pre-recorded videos on WhatsApp, WABetaInfo claims the new tool offers more of a ‘sense of immediacy’. 

‘When recipients receive a video message, they can perceive it has recently been recorded, which significantly enhances its authenticity…