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WhatsApp’s Secret New Feature Will Delete Texts Once You’ve Read Them — and It Could Be Coming to iOS and Android Soon
WABetaInfo says the feature adds a second timer with 5-minute, 1-hour, or 12-hour options after a message is read.
- WhatsApp is testing a new 'After reading' feature for disappearing messages, providing an added layer of privacy to conversations. The option appears in the messaging app's Default message timer settings.
- Currently, WhatsApp allows users to set messages to vanish after 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days. The new 'After reading' option functions as a secondary timer triggered after the recipient views the message.
- When selecting 'After reading', users can choose whether messages disappear 5 minutes, 1 hour, or 12 hours after being viewed. Unread messages always disappear after 24 hours by default.
- WABetaInfo discovered the feature is available to some beta testers on Android and through TestFlight, with a limited number of Users potentially accessing it via the App Store.
- WhatsApp includes a disclaimer that users 'may find other ways to save messages,' and it remains unclear when the platform will officially roll out this Privacy feature to the general public.
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WhatsApp is getting a new setting for disappearing messages that causes them to vanish based on a countdown that starts only after they've been read. Spotted by WaBetaInfo in the latest WhatsApp TestFlight beta, the new option starts a countdown after the recipient reads the message, rather than starting the countdown when the message is sent. The countdown options with the "After reading" setting chosen include the usual "5 minutes," "1 hour," …
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