To let you know about a draft, messages you’ve started writing will show a green and bold “Draft” word followed by what you’ve typed up. That way, you can ponder about finishing it when you open the app and not accidentally ignore your friends (though you still purposefully could, I guess.)

WhatsApp, the most popular messaging platform on the planet, finally has a drafts feature. Why did it take until the tail-end of 2024 to institute a seemingly simple tool that has been available for rival platforms for years?

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WhatsApp has rolled out a new Message Drafts feature that will let users start messages and then automatically save them.

WhatsApp has added a much-anticipated feature: message drafts. This new functionality, introduced this week, helps users keep track of unsent messages they may have typed but forgotten to send. It’s one of those updates that leave you wondering, “Why wasn’t this here before?”