To let you know about a draft, messages you’ve started writing will show a green and bold “Draft” word followed by what you’ve typed up. That way, you can ponder about finishing it when you open the app and not accidentally ignore your friends (though you still purposefully could, I guess.)

I like to think I’m a good texter. While all notifications are silenced by default, I generally respond in a timely manner and go well beyond the bare minimum in my replies. If I actually get around to finishing the message,

The appropriately-named Message Drafts offers “a new and easy way to find your unfinished messages on WhatsApp.” Just look for the “Draft” indicator at the beginning of a message. The platform says that these unfinished messages will move to the top of the chats list so “people can quickly locate them.”

WhatsApp has rolled out a new Message Drafts feature that will let users start messages and then automatically save them.