WhatsApp users, you may not get ‘vacation mode’

Vacation mode — a feature that WhatsApp has allegedly been working on since 2018 — has now been shelved, claims a report by WABetaInfo.
As per a tweet by WABetaInfo, the popular instant messaging app has abandoned the development of ‘vacation mode’, a feature that had been reportedly in works on both iOS and Android platforms for some months.
To recall, this feature was spotted first in October 2018. Using this feature, WhatsApp users could have been able to mute archived chats so that they remain archived until the user unmutes them.
Right now, what happens is that archived chat automatically get unarchived whenever there is a new message sent to someone by the person who had archived chat. Therefore vacation mode would have allowed users to keep those archived chats in that section only as long as the chat was on mute.