WhatsApp has introduced a new functionality whereby users will be able to recover an accidentally deleted message using the ‘Delete for me’ option up to five seconds after pressing the ‘Delete for me’ option.
Currently, the platform allows you to delete messages or multimedia files through two options, ‘Delete for me’ and ‘Delete for everyone’. In the latter case, users have up to two days to delete it.
In both cases, to end a message you must open the conversation or group of WhatsApp to whom this has been sent and click on said text, image or video. Then, a menu is displayed at the top of the interface, where the trash can icon is included.
If a message ‘for everyone’ is deleted, the message ‘You deleted this message’ will appear in the same place where it was in the conversation for both the sender and the receiver. Conversely, if you delete a message to yourself, it will simply disappear from the conversation.
Now the company has indicated that it has received opinions from users who have insisted that they often unconsciously choose this alternative of ‘Erase for me’ instead of pressing ‘Delete for everyone’, so they can’t use the other alternative because the messages disappear from the conversations without a trace.
For this reason, it has introduced a functionality that allows you to undo the ‘Delete for me’ option and recover the deleted message up to five seconds after pressing that button. For it, WhatsApp will display a popup window over the text field containing the ‘Undo’ button.
After that time has elapsed, the message will be permanently deleted from your app chat, but the other user in the conversation or other members of a group will still be able to view it.
WhatsApp has indicated that this feature has already been rolled out to its entire platform user base and that it is available for both Android and iPhone devices.
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