New Delhi: WhatsApp is rolling out a renewed form of the ‘About’ section with a status, reviving a design that is similar to Instagram Notes. Users can now post brief text updates, which can be seen above one-to-one chats and on profile pages, which provides them with a fast means of communicating what they are doing and why they may be unavailable. The updates will be aimed at generating conversations or providing immediate context without having to open a chat.

Surprisingly, this feature is not new. WhatsApp remarks that the first functionality of the app was the ‘About’ rather than the private messaging, which turned out to be the main experience. The company currently resuscitates it in a more observable, interactive manner whereby individuals can tap the update to send a direct mess

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