WhatsApp Lets You Delete Your Wildly Inappropriate Messages Two Days After You’ve Sent Them

WhatsApp gives you a little over two days to delete the message(s) that you did not want to send in the first place

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Delete The Unsavory Messages Even After Two Days Of Sending Them

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The company announced on August 9th through its Twitter account that Rethinking your message? Now, you’ll have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send.

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The previous time duration was around 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 16 seconds to be precise. A little earlier in July, WhatsApp Beta was testing its delete feature of 2.5 days and at one point they were speculating and exploring a delete time limit of 7 days

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Migrate your WhatsApp chat history from Android to iPhone

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WhatsApp Lets You Delete Your Wildly Inappropriate Messages Two Days After You’ve Sent Them

WhatsApp Lets You Delete Your Wildly Inappropriate Messages Two Days After You’ve Sent Them

WhatsApp gives you a little over two days to delete the message(s) that you did not want to send in the first place

Two days and twelve hours are enough to delete that inappropriate message to save face and revise what you intended to say originally.

Delete The Unsavory Messages Even After Two Days Of Sending Them

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The company announced on August 9th through its Twitter account that Rethinking your message? Now, you’ll have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send.

The previous time duration was around 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 16 seconds to be precise. A little earlier in July, WhatsApp Beta was testing its delete feature of 2.5 days and at one point they were speculating and exploring a delete time limit of 7 days

Migrate your WhatsApp chat history from Android to iPhone

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