We all do it. We all send messages a little too quickly and then quickly scramble around trying to delete them. WhatsApp didn’t use to let us do it all, but then for a short period of time, it gave us a short amount of time to take back what we had written in error. WhatsApp then bumped up that time to over 1 hour, but we are bringing you news today that WhatsApp is giving you more time to rethink your sent messages.
According to an analysis of WhatsApp for Android beta version 2.22.15.8, it looks like you will soon be able to rethink old messages you sent days ago and delete them if you see fit.
WhatsApp has begun rolling out an extended delete for everyone option for Android beta users of the app. The new time limit allows them to delete messages up 2 days and 12 hours after they’ve been sent. That means the period has been upgraded from just over 1 hour to a whopping 60 hours.
It looks like WhatsApp is rolling out this new time limit to beta users in groups. This means that it will still likely be a while before regular users of the app will get their hands on it. In fact, just because a feature is in beta testing doesn’t mean it will definitely receive a general roll-out, but there is a good chance we will all get the two and a half-day window to delete our messages at some point in the future.
Another interesting new WhatsApp feature that has been spotted going into testing is a group icon editor. This feature will let all participants in a group use a special in-app tool to create a new icon for the group that includes selecting a background color, different emojis, and stickers. There isn’t much more3 than that known at the minute so this is one of those features that you will just have to keep checking back in with us to track its progress through development.
Interestingly, this new time limit for deleting WhatsApp messages isn’t the only deleting messages update from WhatsApp in recent weeks. Not too long ago, WhatsApp started testing a feature that would give group admins the ability to delete other people’s messages.
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