WhatsApp stops developing ‘vacation mode’ feature: Here’s why

WhatsApp has dropped one of its ongoing and much-awaited developing feature “vacation mode” that would have allowed you to completely ignore your archived chats, according to a report.

According to a WABetaInfo, a blog that tracks the latest updates on WhatsApp’s beta version the Facebook-owned instant messaging platform was working on the vacation mode feature since 2018, but it has now been “abandoned,” it said in a tweet.

What is vacation mode feature?

Planned to be released in both Android and iOS smartphones earlier, the vacation mode feature essentially would have let you completely ignore your archived chats on the messaging platform, according to your convenience.