WhatsApp customers will lastly be capable to edit their messages after they’ve despatched them — however just for quarter-hour
- WhatsApp is introducing a brand new characteristic permitting customers to edit their messages inside quarter-hour.
- Customers can right typos and add extra textual content however the message will probably be marked as edited to others.
WhatsApp, the moment messaging service owned by tech big Meta, is introducing a long-awaited characteristic that may enable customers to edit their messages, the corporate introduced Monday.
The brand new replace offers customers a 15-minute window to edit a textual content together with correcting typos or including extra context, in accordance with its weblog. Customers simply need to lengthy press on a message and choose the edit choice to finish the duty.
One caveat is that the message will probably be marked as edited and others can see that it has been modified.
The brand new characteristic will probably be out there to its two billion customers globally over the approaching weeks. The messaging app was based by Jan Koum and Brian Acton in 2009 and purchased by Fb — now generally known as Meta — in 2014.
With this addition to the app, the corporate will be a part of the ranks of messaging platforms like Sign and Telegram which already provide message modifying providers.
Insider reached out to Meta for additional remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
Till now customers have been unable to vary their messages in any respect, however one characteristic launched in 2017 enabled the choice to delete messages for everybody. A current addition to the app was letting customers create polls.
WhatsApp’s father or mother firm Meta was simply fined a report $1.3 billion by Eire’s Information Safety Fee for privateness violations.
The corporate had been transferring Fb customers’ information to US servers with out ample safety and has now been ordered to cease.
The ruling solely impacts Fb and never Meta’s different platforms like WhatsApp and Instagram.
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