WhatsApp has lifted the veil of a function that’s a lot wanted and more likely to be a well-liked alternative by customers – Unintentional Delete. This function, like its title suggests, is a treatment that enables for side-stepping a number of awkward and embarrassing conditions by giving customers the flexibility to undo the “Delete for Me” choice.

All of us WhatsApp customers can relate to this. There are situations while you ship messages to the unsuitable particular person or unsuitable group, and within the haste to delete the messages earlier than the particular person(s) can view them, usually find yourself clicking the “Delete for Me” choice as an alternative of “Delete for Everybody”. To avoid wasting face and the embarrassment that entails thereafter, the brand new ‘Unintentional Delete’ answer will bringing the choice to undo the “Delete for Me” motion.

The Unintentional Delete function presents customers a window of 5 seconds to undo the “Delete for Me” motion, each in case of sending the message(s) to the unsuitable particular person or the unsuitable chat. The subsequent time customers delete a message, they’ll see a small dialog field that comes with the message “Message deleted for me,” together with a small “Undo” button. Clicking on the button will convey again the message that the consumer (unintentionally) deleted on their very own.

In accordance with WhatsApp, this much-needed function will likely be accessible to all customers on Android and iOS and comes after it has been in beta testing for a number of months. In accordance with an earlier report by WABetaInfo this August, the Meta-owned free messaging service was testing the function alongside the flexibility that may let customers view standing updates of their contacts from their chat listing itself.

This improvement comes alongside WhatsApp engaged on a brand new “Hold Messages” function. Because the title suggests, it should permit customers to undo disappearing messages and efficiently “hold” the messages within the chat. It’s at the moment beneath improvement, although, so it’d take some time for it to come back to our smartphones. And when a saved message is undone, then it’s mechanically deleted for everybody and can’t be recovered sooner or later.