WhatsApp Tests Read-Triggered Disappearing Messages

WhatsApp is getting a caller mounting for disappearing messages that causes them to vanish based connected a countdown that starts lone aft they've been read.


Spotted by WaBetaInfo successful the latest WhatsApp TestFlight beta, the caller enactment starts a countdown aft the recipient reads the message, alternatively than starting the countdown erstwhile the connection is sent.

The countdown options with the "After reading" mounting chosen see the accustomed "5 minutes," "1 hour," and "12 hours." The mounting appears successful the "Default messsage timer" menu, truthful possibly WhatsApp volition find a antithetic location for the enactment oregon (more likely) rename the settings leafage to thing similar "Message timer options."

The caller diagnostic is said to beryllium disposable to "some" beta testers connected iOS and Android, but WABetaInfo believes that immoderate users connected the nationalist WhatsApp mentation connected the App Store whitethorn person entree to the enactment already.


Disappearing messages tin beryllium acceptable arsenic the default behaviour for each caller chats connected the end-to-end encrypted messaging platform, truthful this caller After speechmaking enactment volition apt beryllium a invited summation for peculiarly privacy-conscious users, and it could besides beryllium a imaginable storage-saver for dense users of the app.
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