Get ready to replace Snapchat with Whatsapp’s new update

Facebook has truly taken the truth that it couldn't acquire Snapchat to heart. To such an extent that it has always attempted to emulate the service, first by discharging its own version (slingshot) and later embracing its most well known feature - Stories - in its Instagram and Facebook Messenger apps.

Now, WhatsApp is testing a Snapchat Stories-like feature on its texting and voice calling app. The feature, named "Status," is covered up in the newest public beta form of WhatsApp's Android and iOS clients, and you can give it a whirl — given, you're a beta tester, and have a jailbroken iPhone or a rooted Android phone.

Named confusingly after another WhatsApp feature, Status will give you a chance to post images to your Status page. Another Status tab will appear inside the app close by Chats and Calls. Here you will have the capacity to see your own Status and those of other people who have shared with you. You will have the capacity to pick who gets to see your Status and can likewise see who has seen your Status. Alongside images, you will have the capacity to content status updates.

Additionally incorporated into the camera upgrades is the capacity to zoom just by sliding your finger up and down, or you can rapidly switch amongst front and rear-confronting cameras by double tapping.

As officially expressed, the feature is as of now being tried, and once WhatsApp gets enough feedback to actualize a couple of improvements, it will presumably move it out to clients over the world. When precisely will that happen is impossible to say, however ideally, it will be available soon.