WhatsApp will let you pause voice recordings in future

The feature is currently in testing

You may soon be able to pause while recording a voice message and resume from where you left it, according to a report from WABetainfo.

WhatsApp is working on the ability to pause voice recordings!

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You can pause voice recordings to resume them later in a future update of WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS!https://t.co/7FN5KLASzn — WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) October 9, 2021

This will be useful for people who send multiple voice messages during a chat, as it will let them pause in between takes, if they have to take care of something else. This will also save you time, by not forcing you to record the whole thing again, which is the way voice messages work.

It's not clear when this feature will be available to general users since it's not even in the public Beta for iOS and Android yet. WABetainfo spotted the feature in the development builds for iOS but stated that it will arrive in Beta for iOS and Android sometime later.

In another development, WhatsApp said it has banned 20,70,000 Indian accounts as part of its compliance report. Around 95 percent of the bans were due to unauthorised usage for automated messaging or bulk messaging.

WhatsApp said it received 420 user reports spanning across account support (105), ban appeal (222), other support (34), product support (42) and safety (17) during August. During this period, 41 accounts were "actioned", as per the report.

Not all reports that were reviewed were included as actionable for many different reasons, including users needing access to their accounts for features or user-requested restorations in case of false bans.