WhatsApp Now Lets You Edit Messages (However You Have To Be Fast)

As soon as the function is enabled for customers, they will lengthy press a despatched message, choose the “Edit” possibility from the menu, and make mandatory adjustments. After modifying, customers can select to both save the up to date model or discard the adjustments. In case customers don’t see the choice to edit a despatched message, the function might not have been enabled for you but for the reason that rollout remains to be in progress. Whereas there isn’t any denying that the majority WhatsApp customers will welcome the flexibility to edit despatched messages, there are some limitations to the function.

To start with, customers have solely quarter-hour to edit a message as soon as they’re despatched. They can not, for instance, return and edit a message they despatched a number of hours or weeks in the past. Additionally pertinent to notice is the truth that all edited messages could have an “Edited” tag connected to them to let recipients know. Nevertheless, recipients will be unable to see the specifics of the adjustments made to the message. Meta has additionally confirmed that WhatsApp’s edited messages — like different chats on the platform — are protected by end-to-end encryption.

WhatsApp’s edit message function remains to be rolling out for customers throughout the globe, with the corporate anticipating the rollout to finish within the “coming weeks.”