In November 2020, the instant communications platform WhatsApp introduced messages that disappear after 7 days on its service. Soon after, he began work on a new feature, Single View Messages, which was now available.
Meanwhile, the world’s most popular messaging app will now be working on another new feature. It will be, as soon as it arrives, a further reinforcement for the security and privacy of users’ correspondence with the messages that disappear after 90 days.
There is news on the way to your WhatsApp
As the publication progresses WABetaInfo, dedicated to the purposes of WhatsApp, the latest beta version for Android already has this new function. More specifically, in the test version 2.21.17.16 for the Android platform.
This will be the next feature, or control, to hit the world’s most popular messaging platform, with more than 2 billion monthly active users. It is also one of the messaging applications that has received the most news in recent months.
For users, this function will be more of a control, they can define the expiration period of the messages. In this way, the application will delete the contents after the time defined by the user, be it 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days with the last incorporation.
WhatsApp messages can disappear after 90 days
As we see in the previous post, as well as in the image, the user will be able to define different time intervals for the expiration of the messages. Alternatively, you can disable the feature for a respective chat or group chat on WhatsApp.
It should be noted that this additional configuration is still in the testing phase. Therefore, it may take days or even weeks and months for the new features to be moved to the stable version, available to all WhatsApp users.
In any case, this is an example of the great energy that goes into the platform. The arrival of new functions and modes of communication to this popular platform owned by the Facebook group has already become a common sight.
Lastly, if you’ve joined the beta program, you can now take advantage of the new Android app features.