WhatsApp It is the most popular messaging application on the planet, although, to be frank, it has permanent areas of opportunity for improvement.
The best way to measure this is precisely by trying some other alternatives, to discover that they are actually much more robust, complete, secure and customizable.
Much like what happens between those who make the jump from iOS to Android, there is a world out there of possibilities where there is a real opportunity to find an application more suitable for our specific needs.
At this point it has already become common and even routine for services like Telegram or Signal to launch an update with interesting functions.
Systematically working as a kind of advance that we will surely see on WhatsApp in a few months or years. But sometimes in this eagerness to clone operations care is lost to attend to some fine details.
WhatsApp will block the saving of temporary messages
The scenario described above was exactly what happened when temporary messages for WhatsApp groups began to be integrated in 2020.
The platform can already be considered as a kind of Frankenstein that combines functions of Signal, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and others.
So when adding a new function, sometimes the logic of its execution sometimes crosses paths with another one brought from another application. For example, we have the case of temporary messages.
In WhatsApp groups for years it has been possible to program an “expiry” for the messages shared in these chats, so that they disappear after 24 hours, 7 days or 3 months.
However, there was a bug in the app that allowed anyone in the group to apply the save message feature to every text posted there, including temporary messages.
Now, according to reports from WABetaInfowith the beta version 2.22.20.3 An improvement is being tested on the platform where now temporary messages cannot be saved.
In fact, when trying to do so, a notification message would be displayed warning about the impossibility of executing such an operation.
This represents an important advance, since before users programmed the timing of their messages, which disappeared for them as they had programmed.
But those users in the group who saved the message still kept the same message without the author knowing about it.
With this change, yet to be released, users will have better control over their privacy.