WhatsApp has finally announced one of the most anticipated features today \u2014 message editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mark Zuckerberg noted\u00a0in a Facebook post\u00a0that users can now modify a message within 15 minutes of sending the message. If you want to do so, you can press and hold on a message, and tap on the edit option to alter the message. The edited messages will have an \u201cedited\u201d tag next to the time stamp to mark the change. However, the app won\u2019t maintain any correction history. Other users won\u2019t be able to see the previous versions of edited messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited that you\u2019ll now have more control over your chats, such as correcting misspellings or adding more context to a message.\u00a0For this, within 15 minutes of sending the message, you have to tap and hold that message for a while and then select the option of \u2018Edit\u2019 from the menu,\u201d the company said in\u00a0a blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until now, users had to either delete a message altogether or send a correction in a separate message. Last year, the chat app increased the time limit to delete a message\u00a0from two days (48 hours) to 60 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WhatsApp\u2019s competitors like Telegram and Signal have long offered the ability to edit messages. With iOS 16, Apple also introduced the ability to edit and unsend messages sent via iMessage. Even Twitter introduced the\u00a0edit button for paid users last year. While the time limit to modify a message is not as generous as Telegram\u2019s 48-hour window, it is still better than nothing.
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Source: Tech Crunch
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