WhatsApp to allow users to edit messages - but only for a short window

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WhatsApp volition let users to edit their messages - but lone for 15 minutes aft they person been sent.

The Meta-owned messaging work has started rolling retired the caller relation and it volition beryllium disposable to each users successful the coming weeks.

Messages volition transportation a statement showing they person been edited - but they won't amusement however they person been changed.

To edit one, a idiosyncratic volition request to property and clasp a connection and take "edit" from the drop-down menu.

The edit enactment volition beryllium disposable for 15 minutes aft the connection has been sent.

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The caller relation is for "the moments erstwhile you marque a mistake, oregon simply alteration your mind", the institution wrote successful a blog post.

"From correcting a elemental misspelling to adding other discourse to a message, we're excited to bring you much power implicit your chats."

WhatsApp is the latest work to connection an edit relation aft messaging services Telegram and Signal introduced it.

Twitter introduced its Edit Tweet function to paying subscribers past year.

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Facebook has allowed users to edit posts and comments - but not messages - for astir a decade.

WhatsApp's latest update comes aft Meta announced it would allow users to fastener and fell conversations.

Chat Lock volition region a chat thread from the app's regular onscreen inbox and spot it into a caller folder that tin lone beryllium opened by a password oregon biometric, specified arsenic facial designation oregon a fingerprint.

Meta called it "one much furniture of security" but the diagnostic could put it astatine likelihood with the UK government's online information bill.

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