The messaging experience is also improved. WhatsApp now allows you to pause and resume your recording so you do not have to leave large gaps of silence if you think about what to say next or repeat a recording if you want to have a short chat in real life. You will also be able to hear a message before sending it to make sure you did not accidentally cut or include something you did not want. An example of what the new voice chat user interface looks like. Image: WhatsApp There is also a slight aesthetic improvement. Instead of just using a line to indicate the progress of your voice message playback, WhatsApp will now use a waveform of the actual message. Additionally, WhatsApp can remember where you were when you stopped playing and let you resume playing from that point so you do not have to listen to an entire message again. These improvements are likely to be greatly benefited – WhatsApp says users send an average of 7 billion voice conversations a day. While some similar features were already available in other applications (Telegram, for example, allowed you to listen to messages outside of chats for a while), it’s definitely nice to see the WhatsApp version catch your eye.
