The well-known instant messaging application WhatsApp It does not stop growing in terms of its functionality thanks to the work of its developers. Of course, before sending new functions to everyone, they carry out a series of preliminary tests to make sure that everything works as it should, as it happens in the case that concerns us now.
Especially due to the huge usage and market penetration of this application to communicate with others, the arrival of new features and functions does not stop. Hence precisely the developers of the online service throw new functions every so often from which we users benefit. Now we will see a very interesting as well as useful feature that refers to the messages that we send but that we delete immediately.
What’s more, on certain occasions we may make a mistake in deleting them and we need to recover them for various reasons. Possibly many of you already know first hand that this is a platform that allows us to delete chat messages, both for ourselves and for everyone. So that we understand each other, if we write a message, on the one hand, we can opt for the Delete option for me. What we achieve with this is not to see that message in the chat of our terminal, but it will continue to be present in the recipient’s.
On the other hand, we also have the possibility of using the Delete for everyone function, which obviously deletes said message for us as senders, and for receivers. However, it is more than likely that many of you have experienced the situation that we will describe below.
WhatsApp now allows you to recover deleted messages
Specifically, we mean that, when deleting a chat messageinstead of clicking on delete for everyonewe do it about delete for me. This means that due to confusion we delete that message so that we do not see it in the terminal, but it will continue to be available in the chat of the recipient or recipients. Therefore, this means that to date we did not have the opportunity to undo this movement, but those responsible for the application will give us a second chance.
What we want to tell you is that now we can recover that deleted message again and thus have the opportunity to use the Delete function for everyone. That way, in case of an error, we will now have the possibility to permanently delete that message for everyone, not just for ourselves. Of course, in order to carry out this function that we are talking about, there is an important limitation that we must take into account.
We tell you this because when we make the mistake that we just mentioned, we will only have a short space of time to recover it. Specifically, WhatsApp only gives us 5 seconds to be able to recover that deleted message in the chat. As you can imagine, after that period of time it will be deleted for us without the possibility of changing its status. We must bear in mind that this is a function that is currently in the testing period for both Android and iOS-based devices. As usual in these cases, everything indicates that it will reach other users shortly.
