WhatsApp may soon let users schedule messages
WhatsApp is testing a feature that lets users schedule messages between ten minutes and two weeks ahead, spotted in an Android beta by WaBetaInfo. The main business use for it, sending work messages outside hours, is regulated across much of Europe, and nothing marks a delivered message as scheduled.
WhatsApp is testing a way to schedule messages. Users hold the send button, pick a delivery time and the message goes out on its own. The window runs from ten minutes ahead to two weeks.
The feature appeared in an Android beta spotted by WaBetaInfo, Engadget reported. It is reaching some testers now, with wider access expected over the coming weeks.
The change lands harder here than in America. WhatsApp has around 500 million monthly users in Europe out of roughly two billion worldwide, and it carries work conversations that Americans hold elsewhere.
Mechanically it is unremarkable. Scheduled messages send...
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