It is now possible to save ephemeral messages on WhatsApp for Android and iOS.
Meta adds Keep in Chat, a handy feature to WhatsApp’s ephemeral messages on Android and iOS, somewhat equivalent to Saved Messages. As their name suggests, they allow you to save one or more exchanges in a dedicated folder on the smartphone. To benefit from this, ephemeral messages must already be activated in the conversation (because otherwise, all messages are effectively accessible all the time).
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Note that if you want to turn a normal WhatsApp conversation into a conversation with ephemeral messages, you will need to manually delete previous messages: ephemeral mode only takes effect after enabling this setting. If all conditions are met, you can now save a normally temporary message. That said, there is a condition to be fulfilled, and not the least.
WhatsApp allows ephemeral messages to be saved, but safeguards are in place to prevent abuse
The implementation of ephemeral messages responded to a demand for greater control over the confidentiality of messages. Isn’t the possibility of preventing one or more messages from disappearing being totally counter-productive? Well no, because the person whose message you want to save must approve the operation.
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WhatsApp explains how this mechanism works on the company’s blog: “For this to work, the sender will be notified when someone saves a message, and they will have the opportunity to object to the decision. If you have decided that your message cannot be kept by others, your decision is final. […] the message will be deleted when the time expires”. Will this security measure be sufficient? Nothing is less certain, because the most malevolent spirits always find a way to achieve their ends. The “Keep in Chat” or “Kept Messages” function of WhatsApp on Android and iOS begins to be deployed today.
Source : WhatsApp
