WhatsApp has begun rolling out its new disappearing messages feature in the latest update for the beta version of its Android messaging app.<\/p>\n
According to a report by WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a>, the feature has begun rolling out but it may be a while before users are able to access it.<\/p>\n The rollout is reportedly quite slow, and it is important to note that the functionality is still in beta and may elicit some minor bugs.<\/p>\n Once the functionality becomes available, disappearing messages can be enabled via the following steps:<\/p>\n The report said the process to receive disappearing messages is totally random as WhatsApp is initially starting to enable it for a few users before extending it to others.<\/p>\n It added that iOS users should start to receive the disappearing messages feature when the next iOS beta update launches.<\/p>\n WhatsApp recently detailed<\/strong><\/a> how its disappearing messages feature would work, stating that it was currently under development.<\/p>\n When disappearing messages is enabled, WhatsApp users will be able to send messages that disappear after seven days.<\/p>\n These disappearing messages will not affect any messages sent or received within the chat previously, and in individual chats, either user can turn disappearing messages on or off.<\/p>\n In group chats, only group admins may change this setting.<\/p>\n If a user doesn\u2019t open WhatsApp in the seven-day period, the message will disappear. However, the preview of the message might still be displayed in notifications until WhatsApp is opened.<\/p>\n WhatsApp cautioned that it is possible for somebody to forward or take a screenshot of a disappearing message before it expires, as well as copy and save content from the disappearing message before it disappears.<\/p>\n WhatsApp has begun rolling out its new disappearing messages feature in the latest update for the beta version of its Android messaging app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61196,1081,56814,2594],"class_list":["post-375356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-disappearing-messages","tag-launch","tag-rollout","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375356"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375356\/revisions"}],"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=375356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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