WhatsApp announced that it has officially rolled out its Delete for Everyone feature which enables its users to revoke their messages in case they sent those to a wrong person or a group.
WhatsApp statement, "Starting today you can now delete messages you sent by mistake, whether to one person or an entire group,"
"Deleting messages for everyone allows you to delete specific messages you have sent to either a group or an individual chat. This is particularly useful if you sent a message to the wrong chat or if the message you sent contains a mistake," WhatsApp said in its FAQ.
The feature was pushed out to the stable-build (v2.17.395) last week but has finally started to roll-out to devices in India. The new feature will be able to delete sent messages. However, the reciever will still see a a message stating, "this message has been deleted" for Android users and "this message has been recalled" for iOS users.
What it does?
Using this feature the sender can tap of the erroneous message and select the 'delete for everyone' feature. This will delete the text on the receiver's device. However, there are terms and conditions attached to this. The message can only be deleted within seven minutes after being sent.
WhatsApp has easily become the most widely-used app on Google's Play Store as well as iOS' App Store. The application boasts over a billion downloads on Play Store alone.The company also released a few statistics claiming around 1 billion active users daily and over 1.3 billion monthly active users.
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