In the last times, WhatsApp it is putting the batteries in regards to updates and additions of different features. Today we have new information about the future arrival of the possibility to cancel the deletion of WhatsApp messages, something very useful for those who did it by mistake or chose “delete for me” when they wanted “delete for everyone”.
Meta messaging app is not resting in summer. In the last few days, it added the possibility of leaving a group without warning the rest of its components, added more privacy options to block screenshots and now it will allow you to undo a possible error if you wanted to delete a message for the recipient and you just deleted it for yourself, which will make the other person continue to see it.
This is how you undelete WhatsApp messages
This feature of deleting messages was introduced in the year 2017 and, since then, in case of an error there was no going back. In case you wanted the other person not to see it, it was too late, because we couldn’t undo the option to delete the message for ourselves or make it also be deleted for everyone.
It could happen that we had selected Delete message > Delete for me and we would really like to Delete message > Delete for everyone. So there was no option to undo the process.
Now, a feature that Android beta users are already testing with the version 2.22.18.13 of the program It shows how this process will be, which will soon be integrated to the rest of the users.
According to the information collected in WABetaInfo, it will now appear a pop-up message at the bottom of the screen when an attempt to delete a message for you is detected: in this case, you have a few seconds to retrieve the message if you previously wanted to delete it for everyone.
This “Undo” process will only be available for a few secondsso that you can really only fix bugs and not misuse the feature.
Just over 2 days to delete
One of the many news that WhatsApp has left us this August was also the increase in the time available to delete messages in the application. The ability to delete sent messages Both you and the recipient have been with us on WhatsApp since 2017. Back then, the app only gave us seven minutes from when we sent a message to be able to delete it. This time limit was later changed to 68 minutes and 16 seconds.
Currently, WhatsApp has confirmed on its social media profile that we will have «a little more than two days” for it: “Rethinking your message? You will now have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send.”
💭 Rethinking your message? Now you’ll have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send.
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) August 8, 2022
In this way, the application of Meta equals its main competitor, Telegram, whose possibility of deleting a message was already 2 days from a while ago. Precisely many of the novelties of recent times are focused on adding or matching Telegram features so that there is not so much user leakage.
