As you may see on this instance, you’ll now see your self as a contact in your WhatsApp recipients checklist, with WhatsApp highlighting examples like procuring lists, journey inspiration, voice notes, and many others.

The characteristic has been in testing for the previous few weeks, with beta testers getting entry in late October. WhatsApp has now confirmed that it’s being rolled out to all customers, on each Android and iOS.

As famous, to ship your self a message in WhatsApp, you’ll have the ability to select your contact data from the highest of your contacts checklist. Tapping on that can open up a chat window, the place you may ship your self a fast word.

Which could possibly be: ‘Hey, you look good right now’, simply to present your self a little bit pep, or possibly textual content your self a joke that at all times makes you chortle, irrespective of what number of occasions you see it.

There’s a variety of the way this could possibly be used – I repeatedly ship myself notes (through e mail) of story concepts and prompts that I’ve logged on my notepad, often whereas ready to choose up my children.

It’s a small, however probably useful addition. The brand new ‘word to self’ choice is rolling out to all customers from this week.