WhatsApp’s new feature tells you how many times your message has been forwarded

WhatsApp introduced the ‘forwarding’ label last year to help curb fake news. The Facebook-owned company is working on two new features as an update to this.

First spotted by WABetaInfo, a new beta update for WhatsApp on Android shows two features on forwarding messages. One adds an additional ‘frequently forwarded’ label, while the other lets users check if their messages have been forwarded.

Forwarding Info

This tool is available in the info section for messages. Here, users can see if their messages have been delivered or read. The new update will show if the sent message has been forwarded and also the number of times. WhatsApp lets users hide the read receipt, but it isn’t clear if this will apply to forwarded messages as well.