WhatsApp will also allow you to edit messages already sent
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In WhatsApp they have set to work to review their messaging tool from top to bottom. And we are witnessing a continuous flow of rumours, clues and details about new functions of the most interesting, although they are still to come. Following the discovery just yesterday of the ability to effectively revoke and delete an already sent message so that the sender does not have access to it, the details are now expanded and know that these messages can also be edited.
Once again, it was the source WABetaInfo who noticed the news. This account investigates the ins and outs of the beta or test versions of WhatsApp for both Android and for iOS and Windows Phone for new leads about the company's work. Therefore, it is a reliable source and one that has uncovered new characteristics before other researchers. On this occasion, confirms the existence of the function already in its version for iOS, although hidden and deactivated so that neither users beta tester or testers find her.
Apparently, although hidden, this function would consist of editing a message that has already been sent. That is, modify it for both the sender and the receiver.A function that would help to avoid misunderstandings and correct errors in messages already sent, although it could create many others if the sender has already read the information before it was changed. Undoubtedly, a feature that will give a lot to talk about when it is activated for all users, if the tests give good results.
Do not forget that this is a feature still under development This means that you can still modify its behavior and be tested effectively by a small number of users. After that, and if everything works as it should, it will be released for all users in the future Still no date set.
Delete all tests from a chat
Until now, deleting chat messages only serves to visually clean up the sender's conversation, but does not delete messages that already have been sent and seen by the recipient.However, and according to the latest news, this would be about to change in several ways. According to WABetaInfo, at some point in the future, messages may be revoked or deleted, as well as edited All this to correct or delete evidence from a chat.
These features are not entirely new to the field of messaging. Other applications such as Slack already allow the use of these commands effectively, but in the professional or organizational field We will have to see what happens in the personal when any user can eliminate the evidence of what he said, or qualify a message already sent. Something that will create numerous conflicts and problems, although it will solve others. It's still too early to tell if there will be an indelible record of all original messages sent Something with which we can't say where before Diego was said.
And what do you think about the new possibilities that WhatsApp is considering for its chats? Do you agree that what has been said can be modified? Our comments section is always open.