WhatsApp Beta gets Mark as Unread & Low Data Usage for Calls on Windows Phone

WhatsApp beta has been updated with majorly two new features. The first is what I am really excited about–Mark As Unread–which allows you to keep a chat unread so if its important you aren’t forgetting it.  Of course when you do this, it will add to the unread count as well on top.  Just long press on any of the chat, and it can marked as Unread. However, it seems the option to PIN to Start seems to have gone in this build.

The second option is for VOIP or the voice calls which now consumes less data, but you need to manually enable it. Not sure how exactly it works but it should be great when you are on a slow network and still want to make few calls using WhatsApp. Apart from this, Chat Settings is now renamed to Chat and Call settings.

Remember this is a beta update which you might not have. We expect this feature to get rolled out soon for all Windows Phone users.

Thanks Abhinav for the screenshots.