Earlier this month, WhatsApp had formally introduced that it is going to be introducing disappearing Messages, a function that mechanically erases your WhatsApp messages after a sure time period. The new function is now lastly rolling out for everybody. The particulars of the brand new function are already there on an FAQ web page created by WhatsApp, and customers can now allow this selection to delete messages for particular person or group chats after seven days. Follow this information, as nicely let you know how you can allow disappearing messages in WhatsApp.

WhatsApp: How to allow disappearing messages

Before you proceed, just remember to’ve the most recent model of WhatsApp put in in your smartphone. For Android customers, that might be model 2.21.206.15 and for iPhone customers, that might be model 2.21.121.4.

Once that is sorted, go forward and observe these steps to allow disappearing messages in WhatsApp.

1. Open a WhatsApp chat > faucet Contact Info > scroll down to seek out the **Disappearing Messages function.
2. The function is disabled by default. Tap Continue, adopted by tapping On to allow this function.
3. You’ll must allow this function individually for every chat. Once you do, your messages will mechanically be deleted after seven days.

You cannot determine the period earlier than the messages disappear in a chat, which implies the one choice you’ve gotten proper now could be seven days, a minimum of for now. Competing apps like Telegram give customers a number of choices to select from however WhatsApp has determined to start out with only a single time setting.

Apart from this, it’s also attainable to retailer the disappearing messages earlier than they’re deleted, i.e. by copying these messages and storing them at a unique location. The identical applies for media recordsdata as nicely, one can at all times take a screenshot and save a photograph earlier than it will get deleted.

This is how one can allow disappearing messages in WhatsApp. For extra tutorials, go to our How to part.

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