MENLO PARK – Social messaging service WhatsApp has updated the ‘Delete for Everyone’ feature to stop users from deleting older delivered messages.
The new update gives users a time of up to 13 hours, 8 minutes and 16 seconds to delete the message.
According to WABetaInfo reports, the Facebook-owned company has updated the ‘Recipient limit’ to restrict deletion of a message if the recipient didn’t receive its revoke request within 13 hours, eight minutes, and 16 seconds due to any reason, even if the phone was inactive.
https://twitter.com/WABetaInfo/status/1050496714891816960
This means if users try to delete a message by using the Delete for Everyone feature on WhatsApp, it will only be deleted if the recipient receives the revoke request within 13 hours, eight minutes, and 16 seconds.
https://twitter.com/WABetaInfo/status/1050496770877415424
Notably, users can delete a WhatsApp message for everyone within the previous limit of over one hour, though the recipient needs to receive the revoke request by opening the chat containing the message within the newly designed limit.
The WhatsApp feature, ‘Delete for Everyone’, was launched in December last year. Earlier the limit to delete a message was 7 minutes. This was later increased to 1 hour and 8 minutes and 16 seconds.
