WhatsApp makes a minor but significant change to message notifications for iOS users. The change is currently only noticeable to beta testers, but will be rolled out for more users in due course.
In the latest iOS beta, WhatsApp makes it easy to see who a message is from. The change is for app notifications and brings the iOS version of the app online with the Android version.
The change means iOS users can now see profile pictures next to messages in notifications. This is something that has been available for Android users for a long time, and is a simple and obvious way to more easily find out who a notification is related to at a glance.
Profile pictures can be seen as well as notifications not only for chats with people, but rather also for those related to group chats.
As the new feature uses APIs included in iOS XNUMX, profile pictures in notifications are only available for beta testers running this version of iOS.
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Unfortunately, being part of the WhatsApp for iOS beta program is not enough to access this updated feature. Even if you have installed the latest beta version of the app, there is no guarantee that you will see profile pictures in notifications, as WhatsApp seems to enable this server side for sets of users.
All you can do now is sit back and wait. If you're not a beta tester, you may have a long wait ahead of you, but WhatsApp hasn't given any indication of the rollout schedule, so it's impossible to say when non-beta users will get the benefits of this. update. .
Via WABetaInfo
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