How to Try WhatsApp Fading Messages When It Finally Appears
Good news and bad news for WhatsApp fans. We’ll start with the first one: the app is likely to soon receive a fancy little feature that will allow you to automatically delete messages – group and private – after a specified period of time. And here’s the fun part: you decide how long it takes.
Well, sort of. According to the screenshots from WABetaInfo , you can set up messages to disappear after an hour, a day, a week, a month, or a year. While I would like to see a little more detail for the time in 24 hours – in case you want your post to be automatically deleted after a few hours for people to see it, but it doesn’t linger forever, the feature still exists. better than nothing.
About it. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is currently testing its automatic deletion feature. So chances are good that you won’t find this feature in the app if you use the regular version. If you are lucky enough to become a beta tester , you may or may not see it; I grabbed a beta version of the app that supposedly had a feature (2.20.84) fromAPKMirror , but still no dice.
So while it’s annoying that you’ll have to wait, chances are good that this feature should be rolling out to everyone soon. Once it hits, it’s easy to access. Open a WhatsApp group chat or private message and then tap on the group name to open its options. You will see a new Delete Posts option after displaying the media as shown in the WABetaInfo screenshot:
And once this is enabled, a small clock icon will be added to all messages next to the time. This means that the message, like everything in life, will eventually disappear forever.