WhatsApp announced its new feature- advance search, which will help users find media in their smartphones easily and quickly. There is going to be a new update in WABeta app for Android, announces WhatsApp. The most important feature on WhatsApp latest version 2.20.118 is going to be the Advance Search feature. This feature is not upgrade but a newly add on feature by WhatsApp.
The new feature would be name as Advanced Search Mode and will allow users to easily search for a media file on their smartphones. According to WABetaInfo, an update tracking blog of Facebook own WhatsApp Inc, the company is going to use color codes to differentiate between various media files like videos, audios, photos etc.
The iOS version of the app already has this feature and now WhatsApp has decided to bring this feature into Android version of Beta App.
Audio files will be highlights in mustard yellow, images will be highlights by red color, videos in violet and GIFs in pink. Links will be highlight with green color and documents in blue color.
Apart from this Advance Search Mode feature, this update might have another important feature called "Protect Backup" to its android version. To make backup more secure, a layer of Encryption would be add to the backup. According to WABetaInfo, a user can add password to the backup.
So the backup would be accessed only if the person knows password, this feature makes sure that if any third person by chance gets your backup file, and they still can't access and misuse it.Since these features are under development, they are not available on main WA app, but it is available beta WhatsApp though.Another feature which is under development will allow users to use their WhatsApp from Multiple device. Till now WhatsApp was not accessible from multiple devices.