Sharing videos and more if they are from YouTube is very common. However, in terms of not stopping chatting, the Telegram colleagues had years of advantage, thanks to their background playback systems. Now WhatsApp does the same after the last update and thus responds to the demands of users.
Now we can play YouTube videos directly in the chat without having to leave it, or stop chatting, which will allow us to comment on the videos instantly. This is a mechanism with which WhatsApp is gradually becoming a more complete messaging application.
The mechanism is simple, When we share a YouTube link, a thumbnail or a rich link is generated, because we will simply have to click on the play icon to open a small window that will allow us to reproduce the content instantly, taking advantage of the capabilities Picture in Picture of iOS 11, although it is something quite common in other applications, we already know that the developers of WhatsApp (in this case Facebook Inc) like to take things from the palace quite slowly.
Meanwhile, the instant messaging application still has many things to polish such as keyboard errors or message order errors in iOS 11, small details that annoy in daily use. Users are also notoriously demanding the integration of an efficient GIF search engine that does not make you leave the keyboard either, just as this integration of the YouTube video player is the first step for it, the reality is that it is a fairly good integration and that Among the youngest and lovers of YouTube channels it will undoubtedly be very successful.