{"id":235040,"date":"2017-10-28T08:24:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T06:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=235040"},"modified":"2017-10-28T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T06:26:21","slug":"new-whatsapp-update-delete-sent-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/235040-new-whatsapp-update-delete-sent-messages.html","title":{"rendered":"New WhatsApp update &#8211; Delete sent messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature which lets you delete sent messages.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/27\/whatsapp-lets-you-delete-your-embarrassing-texts-if-youre-quic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>, the feature has started to roll out in the latest version of WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>If a user sends a message they want to retract, they have 7 minutes to do so from the time of sending.<\/p>\n<p>The recipient will then see a &#8220;This message was deleted&#8221; alert.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is called &#8220;delete for everyone&#8221;, and both the sender and recipient must have the latest version of WhatsApp for it to work.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/234940-iphone-x-sold-out-in-30-minutes.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">iPhone X sold out in 30 minutes<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature which lets you delete sent messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2594],"class_list":["post-235040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235042,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235040\/revisions\/235042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}