WhatsApp Going to Introduce a New Feature to Recall Our Messages

WhatsApp messenger is an instant messaging freeware service for Smartphones. We can send text, images, videos, voice messages, contact files, lacation, Gif’s to others using intenet. So far it introduced various new options. Recently WhatsApp introduced one more feature to recall our messages. With this feature we can delete the messages in the individual chats or in the group chats once the message has reached to their phone. That means we can able to delete the messages in the recipients phone also. This option is useful when we send messages to wrong recipients or we really didn’t want to send.

WhatsApp named it as a “Delete for Everyone” option. With this option both the sender and recipient should installed latest WhatsApp in their Smartphones. This feature is available for the Android, IOS, and Windows Phones. For the Symbian Phones this feature is not available right now.

To delete the message we should select the message and then press the trash icon, so we will get three options like “Delete for Everyone”, “Delete for me” and “Cancel”. If we want to delete the message then select “Delete for Everyone” option, so that message will be deleted from their mobile phone. If we want to delete only in our phone then select “Delete for me” option. If we don’t want to delete any message then select “Cancel”.

If the message successfully deleted in place of that message we will see “this message was deleted for everyone”. “Delete for me” will deletes the message only in their phone. It works for all kinds of messages like text, images, videos, Gif’s, contact, voice message, files, location, status reply and quoted message.

But only one thing that we can able to delete within 7 minutes from the message was delivered to recipient. If the deletion was unsuccessful, we won’t be notified. Recipients may see our messages before we delete or if the deletion was not success.

This feature will be worked if both the persons have installed the latest version of Whatsapp. Similarly in the group who ever having the latest WhatApp software App for them only message will be deleted and for remaining it will be remains there only.

You can check the official documentation  here  from WhatsApp website.

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