WhatsApp makes changes in sent messages 'delete' option

California, March 4: WhatsApp has made a big change to its 'delete for everyone' option by extending the time-limit to delete a particular message to over 1 hour. When it was launched in Nov 2017, the app gave users 7 minutes timeframe to be able to wipe out the message, but it has now been extended to 4096 seconds (68 minutes and 16 seconds).

The decision was taken after a number of users had complained that there were messages were recovered by the recipient from the notification log.

Apart from this, the new update also fixes the gif section crash and modifies some Emojis in stickers.

Meanwhile, WhatsApp is also reportedly working on a new ‘Forwarded message’ feature to make the receiver aware that the sender has forwarded it from a different chat or group, or even from the same chat. The feature was first spotted on the latest Android beta version, i.e., v2.18.67.

The Facebook-owned messaging app had also added a Stickers feature which will soon be available for all the WhatsApp users. It had recently launched WhatsApp payments feature in India which allows users (currently restricted to some users only) to transfer money.

The company is currently live beta-testing Payments feature in India based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI). The feature has gone live for some users on Android and iOS.