WhatsApp has announced multiple durations for Disappearing Messages in an all new update.
WhatsApp introduced this feature last year and in an all new update, it will allow users increase the time of disappearing messages up to 90 days.
In addition to this, WhatsApp users will now also have the option to turn on disappearing messages by default for all new chats.
Until now, disappearing messages feature automatically removed the messages after a week (7 days). Disappearing messages when enabled automatically deletes all messages from a chat. The company is adding two new durations for disappearing messages: 24 hours and 90 days, as well as the existing option of seven days.
“Deciding how long a message lasts should be in your hands. We’ve become accustomed to leaving a digital copy of just about everything we type without even thinking about it. It’s become the equivalent of a note-taker following us around making a permanent record of everything we’ve said. This is why we introduced disappearing messages last year, and more recently for photos and videos to immediately disappear after being viewed once,” the company said in a press statement.
How to enable Disappearing Messages?
1. Open the WhatsApp chat.
2. Tap the contact’s name.
3. Tap Disappearing messages. If prompted, tap ‘Continue’.
4. Select 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days.
How to disable Disappearing Messages?
1. Open the WhatsApp chat.
2. Tap the contact’s name.
3. Tap Disappearing messages. If prompted, tap ‘Continue’.
4. Select Off.
The instant messaging platform has added that this feature would be available for group messaging chats as well. Also, the new feature is optional and does not change anything in the existing features of WhatsApp. Once you enable or disable the feature, it does not delete any of your existing chats.
Hence, feel free to try. the all new WhatsApp feature.
Meta owned platforms are coming up with an a lot of new updates, every now and then. Perhaps, that’s an attempt to propel the re-branding exercise and position Meta to overcome the negative cloud that Facebook whistleblowers have created for the already tainted Facebook policies.
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