Abstract
- WhatsApp has launched a calendar search choice for Android customers after rolling out the function on WhatsApp Net beta final month.
- The calendar icon seems within the search area and opens up a full-sized calendar, making it simpler to search out particular texts or messages from the previous.
- WhatsApp has been beta testing this function for Apple iPhones since early this 12 months, so its arrival on Android has been a very long time coming.
Like on another standard messaging app, WhatsApp customers alternate a whole lot and 1000’s of messages with one another repeatedly. Whereas individuals can shortly return to older texts utilizing chat search, not figuring out the key phrases of the textual content or different particulars leaves them with the choice of manually scrolling as much as discover the textual content. There was some hope of this lastly altering as builders began experimenting with a calendar search choice final month on WhatsApp Net beta. This nifty search operate now seems to have made its technique to the beta model of the Android app as nicely.
Because of a tip from one in every of our readers, we found that particular person and group chat search now gives a small calendar icon within the search area, opening up a full-sized calendar. This seems to be a server-side change, although, as not all people on the beta channel is discovering this calendar choice simply but, together with one in every of our colleagues right here at Android Police.
I discovered this function enabled with WhatsApp beta for Android model 2.23.26.16, which was the newest launch till model 2.23.26.17 dropped some hours in the past.
This addition is actually welcome and one that may take the ache out of going means again into your chat historical past. If out there, the calendar icon ought to seem once you faucet the Search choice from the three-dot menu or go to the person or group profile and entry the Search choice there.
It really works simply as you’d count on, although it is not totally consistent with Android’s default date picker. There’s at the moment no technique to swap between the months of the 12 months with out manually swiping or tapping the left/proper pointers as proven within the screenshots above. Nevertheless, we discovered that the 12 months may be modified with a single faucet, which is handy.
Contemplating how useful the search-by-date choice could be, we count on it to be broadly out there throughout extra units sooner or later. WhatsApp additionally has a few different thrilling function additions within the offing, per latest beta variations, so the approaching months could possibly be fairly attention-grabbing.
It is value mentioning that WhatsApp has been engaged on calendar seek for iPhones since not less than June 2020, with the primary iOS beta coming earlier this 12 months, as documented by WABetaInfo. So its arrival on Android was all the time on the playing cards. It’s considerably shocking, although, that WhatsApp Net beta picked up the replace first and never its Android counterpart, on condition that it is normally the opposite means round.
We should additionally be aware that the primary Chat tab on WhatsApp already has a search performance, albeit with out the Calendar choice. As an alternative, customers get to select from filters like learn/unread, photos, movies, hyperlinks, GIFs, audio, paperwork, and polls.
Thanks: Moshe