A new report from the WhatsApp beta tracker, WABetaInfo, claims the Instant messaging service is planning to set a new time limit on the “Delete For Everyone” feature.
Currently, WhatsApp allows a duration of 1 hour, 8 minutes and 16 seconds before you can “Delete For Everyone”. “WhatsApp is now planning to use a different limit when you delete a message for everyone: 2 days and 12 hours!”, says WABetaInfo.
So let’s say you send a message at exactly 10:05 on Friday morning to a contact on WhatsApp, you have until 16:05 on Sunday evening before the “Delete For Everyone” will no longer be effective: exactly two and a half days.
WhatsApp had earlier said it was working on increasing the aforementioned feature to 7 days and 8 minutes. WABetaInfo also confirmed this in an update it gave in November last year. “WhatsApp is now planning to change the time limit to 7 days and 8 minutes in a future update!”
According to WABetaInfo, the extension of more than seven days appears to be unjust, as most users would not want to erase a message received more than a week ago. However, it is unclear whether WhatsApp would make the new time limit permanent or make some changes before making it public. The new update will roll out through the Google Play Beta Program, and WhatsApp says it’s bringing the version up to 2.22.4.10.
The Instant messaging service currently has two features that allow users to delete messages after they are sent. Unlike ‘Delete For Everyone, this second option, something WhatsApp calls “Disappearing messages”, can only be enabled (in the privacy settings) before it can work. Turning disappearing messages ‘on’ will enable you to send messages that disappear after 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days depending on your settings.
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