The Morning After: WhatsApp finally lets you fix your message typos | Engadget

Finally. Starting today, you’ll be able to edit WhatsApp messages you’ve already sent. You’ll need to act fairly swiftly as you’ll only get a 15-minute window. To do so, you just have to long press on the typo-riddled message and tap Edit. Messages will be labeled as ‘edited’ if you do so, but no one will see the edit history, or the mistakes you made. The messaging app is catching up with rival messaging services: iOS users have been able to edit their texts sent in iMessage for a while now. Apple’s messaging service also includes an unsend option. WhatsApp’s update is rolling out to all users now. – Mat Smith The Morning After isn’t just a newsletter – it’s also a daily podcast. Get our daily audio briefings, Monday through Friday, by subscribing right here. The biggest stories you might have missed Twitter bug seems to be randomly restoring deleted tweets What we bought: I’m ashamed of how much I love Sage’s Creatista Plus Meta hit with $1.3 billion fine over Facebook’s EU-US data transfers ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’ and the year of disappointing PC ports Sony’s WH-1000XM5 ANC headphones fall back to $348 at Amazon Lego’s latest set
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