WhatsApp users now have two days to delete embarrassing texts

Despatched a wildly inappropriate textual content meant on your boo to, I don’t know, your boss? Now you have got some additional time to save lots of face and delete it — effectively, when you’re utilizing WhatsApp, no less than.

WhatsApp customers now have a bit over two days after sending a message to delete it as a substitute of only one hour, the company announced at this time.

To begin utilizing the brand new characteristic proper now, open up the WhatsApp group or particular person chat the place you despatched the message(s). Be certain to faucet and maintain the content material you need to eliminate, click on “Delete,” after which choose both “Delete for everybody” or “Delete for me.”

But earlier than you go off on a deleting spree, bear in mind there’s a (slight) catch: all recipients should be up to date to the newest model of WhatsApp to ensure that this to really work — and also you received’t really obtain a notification if the message didn’t delete.

Nonetheless, this might be a helpful new characteristic that will assist WhatsApp achieve a slight benefit over Apple’s iMessage prompt message service. Apple, in any case, nonetheless doesn’t provide this functionality and solely will at any time when the heck its new iPhone, iPad, and Mac working methods are launched, presumably this fall.

For now, nevertheless, the iOS 16 beta solely provides customers two minutes to tug the plug — and solely as long as recipients have downloaded the beta model as effectively. Which, let’s face it, isn’t one thing you may depend on.