WhatsApp is working on a feature that will allow users to automatically delete sent messages faster than currently allowed.<\/p>\n
This is according to a recent tweet from WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a>, which is well known for uncovering the latest updates and features within early versions of the popular chat app.<\/p>\n The site has claimed that WhatsApp is testing the ability to set sent messages to disappear after 24 hours.<\/p>\n WhatsApp started rolling out its disappearing messages feature back in November 2020.<\/p>\n The move was seen as WhatsApp taking a cue from rival Telegram, which had been offering automatic deletion of messages in its Secret Chats feature since 2013.<\/p>\n The latter also recently rolled this capability out to individual and group chats across the app. Another alternative chat app Signal has offered auto-deleting messages since 2016.<\/p>\n Telegram lets users choose between 24 hours and 7 days, whereas Signal lets you set a self-destruct timer anywhere from 5 seconds to 7 days.<\/p>\n WhatsApp’s feature currently only allows for the deletion of a message from the sender and receiver’s chat history a week after a message is sent.<\/p>\n To enable the current seven-day disappearing messages on WhatsApp, users must do the following:<\/p>\n It is not clear when WhatsApp plans to roll out the 24-hour disappearing messages option.<\/p>\n WhatsApp last week also officially launched<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0voice and video calling for its desktop-based app on Windows PC and Mac.<\/p>\n WhatsApp said that taking and making calls on a bigger screen will make it easier to work with colleagues, see family members more clearly on a bigger canvas, or free up the user\u2019s hands while moving around a room and talking.<\/p>\n Desktop calling on WhatsApp will at first only support one-to-one calls, with group calls to be added in the future.<\/p>\n The update comes on the back of claims from the company that it had observed a significant increase in people calling one another on its mobile platform over the last year.<\/p>\n WhatsApp is working on a feature which will allow users to automatically delete sent messages much faster than currently allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":382398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61196,68904,30082,23753,2594],"class_list":["post-388690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-disappearing-messages","tag-self-destructing-messages","tag-signal","tag-telegram","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388690"}],"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\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388700,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388690\/revisions\/388700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Voice and video calls on WhatsApp Desktop<\/h3>\n
Now read: South African WhatsApp users cannot be forced to accept new privacy policy \u2013 Regulator<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"