WhatsApp is one of a few messaging platforms that lets you delete a message after you've sent it. Skype is another one worth mentioning, though we're sure that far more people actually use WhatsApp. The messenger platform introduced the feature back in October of last year and allows someone to … …

The latest WhatsApp app version update adds a much needed prolonged timeframe to delete messages for all involved. The "Delete for everyone" option will now stay for 1 hour, 8 minutes and 16 seconds, instead of the seven minutes you had before. Very specific, we know, it's 4096 seconds, or …

If you use WhatsApp to communicate with your friends, you can now delete a message up to one hour, eight minutes, and 16 seconds after you send it. The “delete for everyone” function was first added to the app last October, but users only had seven minutes after sending a …

The meteoric rise in popularity of messaging apps means communicating with people around the world has never been easier, but it's also enabled us to send messages we later regret. Thankfully, WhatsApp is giving users longer to undo their shameful conversations by extending the time they can … Read More

WhatsApp has expanded the amount of time it gives you to delete a message after mistakenly sending it. Originally launched as a feature that gave you seven minutes to rectify your mistake, the messaging company has now expanded the feature to allow you to delete messages up to an hour …

"When the user deletes a message for everyone, WhatsApp sends to the recipient(s) a new message having the same ID of the message that the user wants to revoke," the post added. Earlier, when a recipient received this particular message containing the revoke request, WhatsApp checked if the ID of … …

Having textual regret? If you sent your message via WhatsApp, you'll now have more than an hour to recall it. According to WhatsApp-focused WABetaInfo, WhatsApp recently rolled out app updates that increase the message recall time limit from just 8 minutes and 32 seconds to more than an hour. Read …

A few weeks back we reported on the story that WhatsApp were expanding upon their 'unsend message' function, and today their latest update has confirmed it. For reasons we're not entirely sure about, they have lengthened the 'delete for everyone' option from 420 seconds (seven minutes) to 4,096 … Read More

Yeah, same here. It really makes us wish messenger services had, like, some sort of undo button. Enter: WhatsApp. Starting last year, it let you delete sent messages. But there are a couple of caveats to this much-welcomed feature, like that you had to delete it within the first seven …

WhatsApp used to give users seven minutes to delete a message after sending it. This deletion would affect all recipients. Now, for reasons unknown, the time is one hour, eight minutes, and 16 seconds. Still, there are ways for message recipients to keep a message, even if the sender deletes …