WhatsApp 'chat filters' feature coming soon! - Here's all you need to know

WhatsApp chat filters: After bringing chat filters to WhatsApp Business app in 2018, the Meta-owned popular messaging application WhatsApp is now working on introducing a similar feature to its regular app as well.

According to a report by WABetaInfo, a website that tracks WhatsApp, the Meta-owned messaging app is working on bringing chat filters to standard WhatsApp accounts as well. 

A screen of the feature in development shared by the blog site shows that with a future update, users of WhatsApp’s standard app will be able to sort through their chats by applying one of the four filters — Unread Chats, Contacts, Non Contacts and Groups. 

As per the report, these filters are the same as the ones available in WhatsApp‘s Business app at the moment.  otably, the screenshot doesn’t indicate that the company is planning any major changes in the user interface of its standard app and WhatsApp Business app when it comes to chat filters.

 In WhatsApp’s Business app, the chat filters are available in the search bar on the top of the chats tab. In the company’s standard app, the company will place chat filters outside the search bar on the top towards the right side. 

In addition to this, the messaging app will also make these chat filters available all the time in its standard app. “Standard WhatsApp accounts will also be able to use the same feature in a future update of the app, but there is another difference: the filter button will be always visible even when you are not searching for chats and messages,” the blog site noted.

As far as the availability is concerned, this feature is under development and it will be sometime before beta users of the company’s Android and iOS-based apps are able to access it.