WhatsApp launches new feature that lets you set new chats to disappear – India Today

WhatsApp has announced that its disappearing messages feature is finally getting the anticipated disappearing chat functionality. WhatsApp users will now be able to turn on disappearing messages for all new chats, meaning the entire chat will disappear automatically after the set time, which can be 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days. “Not all messages need to stick around forever,” said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post on Facebook announcing the new disappearing messages option on WhatsApp.Previously, the time for disappearing messages was just 24 hours, but WhatsApp has introduced two more options to the regular disappearing messages, as well. These ephemeral chats will also be deleted from WhatsApp servers, the company said. When you turn on disappearing messages for all one-on-one chats, your existing messages or chats will not be affected. Similarly, the option of disappearing messages for the entire chat will not impact existing group conversations, but you can send disappearing messages to the group by turning disappearing messages on from the group settings anytime. However, the admin of the group can restrict the privileges of turning the feature only to admins to stop misuse. New group chats can, however, be set to disappear with the new…
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