WhatsApp to permit customers to edit messages – however just for a brief window

WhatsApp will enable customers to edit their messages – however just for quarter-hour after they’ve been despatched.

The Meta-owned messaging service has began rolling out the brand new perform and it is going to be out there to all customers within the coming weeks.

Messages will carry a label exhibiting they’ve been edited – however they will not present how they’ve been modified.

To edit one, a consumer might want to press and maintain a message and select “edit” from the drop-down menu.

The edit possibility shall be out there for quarter-hour after the message has been despatched.

The new perform is for “the moments when you make a mistake, or simply change your mind”, the corporate wrote in a weblog put up.

“From correcting a simple misspelling to adding extra context to a message, we’re excited to bring you more control over your chats.”

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WhatsApp is the newest service to supply an edit perform after messaging providers Telegram and Signal launched it.

Twitter launched its Edit Tweet perform to paying subscribers final yr.

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Facebook has allowed customers to edit posts and feedback – however not messages – for nearly a decade.

WhatsApp’s newest replace comes after Meta introduced it could enable customers to lock and conceal conversations.

Chat Lock will take away a chat thread from the app’s common onscreen inbox and place it into a brand new folder that may solely be opened by a password or biometric, corresponding to facial recognition or a fingerprint.

Meta referred to as it “one more layer of security” however the characteristic may put it at odds with the UK authorities’s on-line security invoice.