Messaging applications do not stop growing and improving to offer us the best experience when communicating with others. An example of this can be found in a well-known solution like WhatsApp. However, it still has a lot of things to debug, something Meta is constantly working on.
Perhaps one of the greatest attractions that these platforms offer us is the wide variety of ways in which we can communicate with users of the same application. This means that we will have the possibility of sending text messages, making video calls or receive and send audio files. In fact, along these same lines we want to focus on this last mode of operation.
And it is increasingly widespread use of voice messages Instead of wasting time writing mobile device virtual keyboard. Although this is an operation that does not convince everyone due to certain drawbacks. Hence precisely why the WhatsApp development company is working on a function that will provide us with summaries and transcriptions of these audio messages.
But with everything and with it, until the arrival of that feature, sometimes we find a serious inconvenience when it comes to listen to these sound files. We have the possibility of playing them through the speaker of the mobile terminal, an increasingly common practice, although it is not recommended in public places.
We can also hold the phone to our ear, as we have been accustomed to for years, to listen to that file. However, this is where the problem we talked about is observed. And the proximity sensor of the terminal is activated as if it were a conventional call.
Disable the proximity sensor for WhatsApp audios
This is very useful because this sensor turns off the phone screen so that we cannot press buttons by mistake with our face during conventional calls. But as far as the WhatsApp audios, when the screen turns off, playback stops. Hence precisely the usefulness of deactivating this proximity sensor to be able to comfortably listen to the audio of WhatsApp without using the speaker.
It must be taken into consideration that the Meta application itself does not offer us any function to carry out this deactivation task that we are mentioning. With everything and with it we can always disable proximity sensor from our mobile terminal. In this way, the playback of the audio content that we receive in the messaging application will no longer be cut off when listening to it by bringing the mobile phone closer to the face.
To do this, we only have to access the configuration of the mobile operating system itself, whether Android or iOS. As a general rule, this is a function that we can activate or deactivate from the settings in the Calls section of the mobile itself. The exact location of this function varies significantly between manufacturers and layers of the Android operating system.
What you can be sure of is that once the feature called Proximity sensoryou will no longer have problems when listening to these sound messages on WhatsApp without them cutting off.
