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Lucie Tobin

Voices: WhatsApp’s new rules on voice notes will only make them more annoying

‘Voice notes are a one-sided conversation, the sender has switched to “send” mode and blocked any receive’ - (Getty Images)

Yesterday, I got an invitation to birthday drinks from a college friend. Great! As I read her WhatsApp, my eyes drifted up my phone screen to what sat above it: a stream of voice notes. All unplayed. Some two months old.

I have three friends who send them, and I do mean to listen, but like opening that pile of post on the stairs or renewing my mortgage, they nag at the back of my brain… and yet still I do nothing.

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