Overview
- Researchers reported Thursday that WhatsApp code in an Android beta build shows a new peekable preview that appears without opening a chat.
- The preview is invoked by long‑pressing a conversation and sits at the top of a refreshed action menu so users can manage the chat from the chat list.
- On Android the preview is reported to be scrollable so users can browse more messages in the window while iOS currently shows only a few recent lines.
- Messages read inside the preview do not mark the chat as read and read receipts update only when the conversation is opened normally.
- The feature is still in development, has not been rolled out to public beta or stable releases, and follows recent WhatsApp changes such as media thumbnails in the chat list.