Meta-owned WhatsApp is rolling out a much-needed function that lets customers edit messages inside a 15-minute window. Firm CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement in a Fb submit that WhatsApp customers can now edit messages for as much as quarter-hour after sending them.
The edit message possibility has began rolling out to customers world wide and will likely be accessible to everybody within the coming weeks.
“Now you can edit your WhatsApp messages as much as 15 minutes after they’re despatched! 😅”, Zuckerberg introduced.
Whereas WhatsApp is the world’s hottest messaging platform, a lot of its customers have been ready for the edit message possibility as customers ship messages to folks, in which there’s a mistake or they write one thing which they didn’t wish to say.
“We’re excited that you’re going to now have extra management over your chats, reminiscent of correcting misspellings or including extra context to a message. For this, inside quarter-hour of sending the message, it’s important to faucet and maintain that message for some time after which choose the choice of ‘Edit’ from the menu,” WhatsApp wrote in a weblog submit.
Nevertheless, the edited messages will likely be marked as ‘Edited’, thus, letting the folks on the receiving finish know that the despatched message has been modified, however they will not see the edit historical past. Like all private messages, media recordsdata and calls, WhatsApp messages and modifications are protected by end-to-end encryption, the Meta-owned firm added.
To recall, earlier in March, WhatsApp beta tracker WABetaInfo had mentioned WhatsApp is working to introduce the flexibility to let customers edit messages even after sending them. As per the WhatsApp beta for iOS 23.6.0.74 replace, a devoted alert is underneath work that can inform customers when their edited message has been efficiently despatched to everybody in a WhatsApp dialog, WABetaInfo had talked about.
