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It seems like a function that was always there, but that delete a message already sent was a revolution for WhatsApp in October 2017 Almost two years after it began to appear on mobile phones, we are already completely used to deleting data, information or even a photo that we did not want or should share in a chat. And everyone has accepted it as something logical, necessary and, moreover, safe. Well, now it's time to know that not even WhatsApp is responsible for this function actually deleting the message.
And it's not necessarily that we've been deceived during these two years, it's that the function has never been fully effective. Although we have been led to believe that the other user in the conversation would not see the message, the truth is that there are formulas to prevent these contents from being actually deleted from the chat. And even more, now it has been discovered that, in the case of the iOS platform, that is, if you have an iPhone, it is possible that those photos that you thought you had deleted have never been completely deletedBut the worst thing is that WhatsApp seems to be calm about it.
WhatsApp doesn't delete photos on iPhone
A recent information published on TheHackerNews.com refers to a privacy issue affecting WhatsApp for iPhone. As published, when a photo is sent to an iPhone user and then deleted, a copy of it is stored in the iPhone's camera roll or galleryWhatsApp reports in the chat that the message has been deleted, but the truth is that traces remain.
Apparently, after informing WhatsApp of this fact, the company has stated that this deletion function does not guarantee that the content remains completely deletedIt focuses, rather, on the content disappearing from WhatsApp. However, they seem to clean their hands of the receiving user viewing the content. Either because it was present in the conversation before the sender could delete it, or because on iPhone these copies of multimedia files are downloaded by default to the gallery.
The problem comes from an option that is active in WhatsApp for iPhone by default, and that allows you to download all the multimedia content of the chats to the terminal's gallery.If this feature is not deactivated, it is of little use to delete a message in WhatsApp. Even when done during the hour, 8 minutes and 16 seconds that the app allows to use the delete function for everyone.
Of course, on Android, when you use this feature, not only the photo for the receiver is deleted, but also for the sender. Leaving less footprint and more privacy But it does not mean, in any case, that the recipient could not see the content before it is deleted.
Applications to collect all messages
Of course, we must not forget that there are other useful tools to save the entire record of a WhatsApp chat. And by this we mean storing all messages, even those that are deleted after being sent. This is the case of WAMR for Android phones, with which leave a copy of all incoming messages from WhatsApp, even if they are deleted later.You just have to install it and then review the saved messages here.
Although you don't need an application to force a message to stay in a chat. The WhatsApp application itself has a useful bug or trick so that data is not deleted. Simply create a reply to a message That way, if the original message is deleted, it can still be read along with the reply below.
Perhaps because of all this, WhatsApp does not want to take responsibility for its own function. And there are many techniques and tools to keep everything said in a chat. What has been said remains said. So privacy is a relative thing in WhatsApp.
