- Whatsapp the major social media application is ready to introduce some important updates. The delete messages feature will be available for group chats and only accessible to the group administrator. Also these feature will work as a cleaning tool for group chats.
- WhatsApp constantly keeps updating its software by adding features to provide smooth messaging and call experience to the users. The Facebook owned messaging app is gradually rolling out the iOS beta version of its most awaited disappearing messages feature.
- It also confirmed that this feature will be available for group chats and only accessible to administrators. Once available, the feature will automatically delete messages after a particular time period set by the user and make it look like the message never existed. The new Delete Message feature will work as a "cleaning tool" for group chats. This essentially means that the feature will help the group admins to remove group messages after a particular period of time and clear or manage storage space automatically.
- Groups have usually a lot of messages and this feature could help to save your phone storage, deleting old messages automaticallyand only the administrators will be able to enable/disable it.
- The 'Delete Message' feature will come with a toggle on/off button and users can choose a particular time interval for the messages to automatically disappear. There will be five options for time intervals to choose from - 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month and 1 year. Accordingly, the messages sent to that chat will disappear. For instance, if the user opts for 1 hour time interval, the messages sent post selection will be deleted after an hour.
- The company has not officially announced any release date of the update yet.
