{"id":491827,"date":"2023-05-15T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T09:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=491827"},"modified":"2023-05-15T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T12:05:36","slug":"whatsapp-testing-edit-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/491827-whatsapp-testing-edit-button.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp testing edit button"},"content":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp is testing the ability to edit sent messages within chats and groups in its latest Android beta, WABetaInfo reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The feature is available to some users in the latest version of the beta, enabling testers to edit messages after they’ve been sent. However, there’s a catch \u2014 the feature is only available within 15 minutes of sending.<\/p>\n

Users with access who select a message within 15 minutes after it was sent will see the edit button, and there is no limit to how many times you can edit a message.<\/p>\n

According to WABetaInfo, the 15-minute limit is in place as the feature is meant for correcting typos, and allowing edits to older messages could compromise a conversation’s integrity.<\/p>\n

It also reported that, for now, it isn’t possible to edit messages that you sent from a different device. Essentially, you can only edit messages on the device from which they were sent.<\/p>\n

Participants in your conversations can tell if you have edited a message, as WhatsApp will add an “edited” label in the message bubble.<\/p>\n

The edit messages feature is available to select beta testers and will roll out to more users over the coming days.<\/p>\n

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There’s a catch, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":475755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[397,161,73842,2594],"class_list":["post-491827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-facebook","tag-meta-platforms","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491827"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491843,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491827\/revisions\/491843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}