WhatsApp 'Delete for Everyone'
feature that allows users to delete sent messages is now rolling out to all
users, a week after it trickled out to select users of the app. The
feature lets people call back messages sent on individual chats as well
as WhatsApp groups, and is available across different platforms, such
as Android, iPhone and Windows Phone. One of the biggest use cases of the
Delete for Everyone feature can be when you send a message to the wrong chat or
if the message sent contains a mistake. It is the latest feature added to
WhatsApp in a long list of features introduced this year, and is biggest change
to the chat app since blue ticks.
The Facebook-owned service
confirms messages that have been successfully deleted for everyone will be
replaced with "This message was deleted" in your recipients' chats.
Similarly, if you see "This message was deleted" in a chat, it means
that the sender deleted their message for everyone.
How to get WhatsApp 'Delete
for Everyone' feature, and how it works
· Make
sure you the latest version of WhatsApp is downloaded on your phone. The
recipient must also have the latest version installed for the Delete for
Everyone feature to work.
· Select
the message(s) you want to delete
· Tap
the delete/ trash icon on the screen
· Now
the dialogue box will show the new option Delete for Everyone
Once you hit the Delete for
Everyone dialogue box, the sent message will be replaced with "You deleted
this message". Also, remember that the feature will not work if the other
person is not on the latest version of WhatsApp; in this case, recipients may
see the message before it's deleted or if deletion was not successful.
WhatsApp says that the feature
will be applicable only if the user is quick enough. The company explains that
users can only delete messages for everyone for up to seven minutes after
sending. This means that once seven minutes have passed, there is no way to
delete messages for everyone.
Apart from 'Delete for
Everyone', WhatsApp has renamed the regular delete option, calling it Delete
for Me. This, as before, allows users to delete the message they've sent or
received from the device. However, this will have no effect on the recipients'
chats. This feature will not change anything on the recipients end and they can
continue seeing the messages in their chat screen.
To delete messages for
yourself, users can head to the chat containing the message they wish to delete
and tap and hold the message to delete multiple messages at once. In this case,
users will have to use tap Delete (the trash icon) at the top of the screen,
and then select Delete for Me.
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