WhatsApp has extended its message deletion time limit to two days and 12 hours (60 hours in total). By implication, users can remove an accidentally sent chat even after hours. Prior to the extension, the limit was 1 hour, 8 minutes and 16 seconds.
While announcing the development, WhatsApp tweeted: “ Rethinking your message? Now you’ll have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send.”
However, the tweet by WhatsApp about this feature just mentioned “little over two days” but didn’t mention the 12-hour part.
The unsend feature was first introduced by WhatsApp in 2017 with a time limit of just seven minutes. Later, it was increased to one hour and eight minutes.
In 2021, WABetaInfo noted that WhatsApp might consider introducing a seven-day limit, but with this new development, it has selected a rather odd time frame of two and a half days.
Also, WhatsApp is introducing new privacy features like blocking screenshots for “view-once messages” and the ability to leave a group quietly.
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