New York March 16 (IANS) Soon after attracting backlash over its Snapchat-like Stories feature WhatsApp has revived its text Status option while keeping its image-based replacement a media report said.
In mid-February WhatsApp removed the feature that let users set a message and then gave the Status name to a Snapchat Stories clone. But last week text Statuses reappeared in the Android Beta version of WhatsApp in the About section of the profiles Tech Crunch reported on Wednesday.
We heard from our users that people missed the ability to set a persistent text-only update in their profile so we have integrated this feature into the About section in profile settings WhatsApp was quoted as saying.
Now the update will appear next to profile names anytime you view contacts such as when creating a new chat or looking at Group info. At the same time we are continuing to build on the new Status feature that gives people fun and engaging ways to share photos videos and GIFs with their friends and family throughout their day the company added.
The About status will roll out to all Android users over the next week and is coming soon to iPhone.
Users can open the About section of their profile to set a text Status and view other people s updates by opening their contact.
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WhatsApp brings back text Status feature
