Whatsapp is bringing a new feature ... Now users will be able to forward and reshare the status of their friends

WhatsApp is now the world's most used instant messaging platform, with more than 3.5 billion users. Its user-friendly design and strong security features have made it the most preferred among messaging apps. Constantly introducing new features and updates, WhatsApp keeps working to improve the user experience even further. Recently, the company has announced to add a new feature to its status section.

WhatsApp's status updates has already been introduced

The feature of adding music to WhatsApp's status updates has already been introduced and now users are going to get a new feature to forward and reshare the status. This new feature is especially exciting for users who like to share their status updates with others. After months of demand, WhatsApp is now going to introduce this long-awaited option.

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WhatsApp is working on an optional feature to allow resharing and forwarding status updates, and it will be available in a future update!https://t.co/4RN5DSSMPs pic.twitter.com/kFbZnZrVWB

— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) May 13, 2025

New feature details

Information about this new feature of WhatsApp was shared by a website called WABetaInfo, which tracks updates of WhatsApp. Currently, this feature is in the testing phase in the beta version of Android. WABetaInfo also made a post about this update on its social media platform X, in which some information was shared about this feature.

Status forwarding and reshare feature

With this new feature, users will now get control over whether their status can be forwarded or reshared by others. This means that if someone likes your status and wants to share it, they will be able to do so easily, but you will have the final consent on whether to share this status or not. A toggle option will be provided for this, allowing you to control this option.