WhatsApp has formally introduced the supply of a brand new edit characteristic that might be obtainable to all customers worldwide over the subsequent few weeks.
“For the moments if you make a mistake, or just change your thoughts, now you can edit your despatched messages,” a WhatsApp assertion stated. This edit operate is just obtainable quarter-hour after sending and messages modified are marked as “edited”.
The Meta-owned messaging service is following the lead from different messaging apps resembling Telegram and Apple’s iMessage, which allow you to edit texts after they’ve been despatched. The previous permits a 48 hour window, the latter quarter-hour.
“Edited messages will show ‘edited’ alongside them, so these you’re messaging are conscious of the correction with out displaying edit historical past. As with all private messages, media and calls, your messages and the edits you make are protected by end-to-end encryption,” the assertion stated.
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It is a notable new characteristic for WhatsApp. Till now, it has not been doable to vary the content material of a WhatsApp message that has already been despatched except you delete the message and ship it once more after correcting it. At present, it may be embarrassing if a message incorporates too many spelling errors or typos. With the brand new edit operate, the errors may be corrected rapidly.
How the brand new edit operate for WhatsApp messages works
There might be one necessary rule when utilizing the brand new characteristic: A person will solely have quarter-hour to appropriate a despatched message. After this time, no extra modifications might be doable.
The primary chosen customers can already check out the operate in beta variations of WhatsApp. The modifying operate is accessible within the WhatsApp beta for Android smartphones and WhatsApp Net.
In observe, the operate works as follows: The person selects the message that has already been despatched and clicks on “Edit”. They then appropriate the message and ship it. The recipient is then knowledgeable that the content material of the message was subsequently modified and precisely when this occurred. After the 15-minute interval has expired, it’s now not doable to make modifications.
This text has been translated from an authentic posted on PCWelt.