WeChat’s recently launched image usage count query function has attracted users’ attention. In this regard,WeChat employee "Ke Cun Xiao Jiang" responded that the launch of this function is to allow users to intuitively see the usage of files, and to make it clear that forwarding pictures, videos or files will not repeatedly occupy the storage space of the mobile phone, and visually alleviate everyone's storage anxiety.
Among the new functions added to WeChat this time, users can long press on the picture, video or file in the chat, select to view the chats containing the relevant content, and then they can clearly see how many individual chats or group chats the content is used in.
It can also locate the specific chat location with one click and easily trace the flow of content to its source. Netizens call it a practical ability to save the memory of goldfish.
WeChat employees said that the design of this function has been planned for a long time.The core is to allow users to intuitively understand through UI-level display that after file forwarding, only the number of references increases, not multiple copies are generated, and the actual storage volume does not increase.
Behind this experience is the hard link technology adopted by WeChat. No matter how many times the same file is forwarded, only one copy of the original file is retained locally on the mobile phone, thus avoiding storage redundancy at the root.
In addition to querying the number of times an image has been used, WeChat has also launched a face-to-face image sending and receiving function, which allows you to quickly transfer original images without adding friends or consuming data.
