WhatsApp is finally adding a feature that’ll make it much easier to send short video clips to your friends and family directly within the app.
WhatsApp is adding a new feature that lets you respond with video messages with a single tap right within the chat window. The messaging app already offers the flexibility of sending voice notes, but in order to communicate using a video clip, so far, users first had to record footage using a different camera app on their phone and then send it over as an attachment. Simply put, it was a multi-step pipeline that added needless hassle.
Video messages can be up to 60 seconds in length. In case you’re concerned about privacy, these video messages are end-to-end encrypted, just like every other kind of text and media you exchange in a WhatsApp chat. Based on a video shared by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, it appears that users won’t be able to adjust elements like video resolution or frame rate.
