Whatsapp will now let you delete two-day old messages
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Popular messaging app WhatsApp will soon release a feature that will let users delete two-day-old messages.
The messages will disappear from the sender and receiver, applying to both private and group chats.
The company made the announcement via a tweet, saying users will have two days and 12 hours to delete messages after being sent. Formerly, the app only let one hour, eight minutes, and 16 seconds for users to to delete messages.
Users will only have to tap and hold the message to see the 'delete' option.
Apple, however, first let users have 15 minutes to unsend a message, but now has reduced the time to two minutes in the latest betas of iOS 16. Telegram, another free messaging app, lets users edit and delete messages without any time boundaries.
WhatsApp is reportedly, also working on a feature that will let group admins delete messages from participants, which might be available for beta users only,