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WhatsApp users now get more time to delete sent messages – Times of India

Andrew McCollum
The ability to delete an unwanted message or something you sent to someone by mistake on WhatsApp has been a welcome feature. Now, WhatsApp is giving users more time to delete sent messages. According to a tweet by the official WhatsApp account, users will have two days to delete messages after they have sent them. “Rethinking your message? Now you’ll have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send,” the tweet reads. In fact, users will have 2 days and 12 hours to delete any message after they have sent it, as per multiple online reports.

Earlier, this limit was restricted to close to 68 minutes. Apple is also set to introduce a similar feature in iMessage. However, while WhatsApp has increased the delete message limit, Apple — in the beta versions of iOS 16 — started with 15 minutes limit but now has reduced it to two minutes. It will be interesting to see how the feature is implemented when iOS 16 is rolled out to all users later this year.

How to delete messages on WhatsApp

You can follow these simple steps to delete messages for everyone on WhatsApp.

  • Open WhatsApp and go to the chat containing the message you want to delete.

  • Tap and long press the message. You can also select more messages to delete multiple messages at once.

  • Tap the Delete icon and then choose Delete for everyone.

  • If you want to delete a message just for yourself, then tap the Delete icon and then choose Delete for me

Things to keep in mind

There are certain things users should keep in mind about deleting messages.

  • In order for messages to be successfully deleted for everyone, you and the recipients must be using the latest version of WhatsApp.
  • A user may have seen your message before it’s deleted or if deletion wasn’t successful.
  • You won’t be notified if deleting for everyone wasn’t successful.

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