'Mention badge' is a new feature that the tech giantWhatsApp is working on, according to a report published in Mashable India. The'mention badge' feature will appear in group chats.
This feature will help to know how many times you are mentionedin that particular group. It was reported first on a website wabetainfo.com.It stated, "After several updates that addressed bug fixes and generalimprovements, WhatsApp has released today the 2.21.3.13 beta update. It hasnothing new apparently, but we can show today a preview of the feature they’reworking on in this build: the mention badge. WhatsApp has a feature that allowsto show a mention badge in the group cell, every time you are mentioned in thatspecific group."
The site further added, "“we’ve previously reportedthat this feature was under development. After receiving some reports, we’veinvestigated and we’ve discovered that this is an old feature, apparently forsome users. For a certain part of users, this feature did never work, soWhatsApp is introducing a sort of “fix” in order to make it work for thoseusers. The fix will be enabled in a future update”.
As per reports, WhatsApp has introduced many features,some of these features are similar to its parent company and sister Instagramsuch as stories and status updates. Recently, WhatsApp faced a lot of flak dueto allegations on the company for tampering with the privacy of people.However, WhatsApp tried to clear apprehensions of people and published frontpage Ads on newspapers while also added stories about their new update onWhatsApp.