World News Headlines August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 WhatsApp might make disappearing messages option a lot more useful 0 0000 0 0 more WhatsApp might make disappearing messages option a lot more useful August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found August 19, 2021 Under One Ceiling WhatsApp might make disappearing messages option a lot more useful In November 2020, WhatsApp introduced a much needed privacy setting: disappearing messages. Oddly, the feature only had one default setting that made new messages disappear from chats after seven days, which may not be optimal for some. Now, WhatsApp is working on making the feature more useful with some additional options. According to WABetaInfo, the latest beta version of WhatsApp now has three additional options for the period after messages disappear: 24 hours, seven days, or 90 days. While this is still not as granular as you get on Signal, where you can set messages to disappear after 30 seconds, five minutes, one hour, eight hours, a day, a week, or a month, but it’s an improvement. It may look small, but it’s the type of feature that really needs at least a couple of options to accommodate for the different needs of different users. SEE ALSO: WhatsApp chat history can now move between iOS and Android I asked Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) about the lack of granularity for this feature after it launched, and a spokesperson told me that seven days “strikes a balance between the benefits of ephemerality and the utility of being able to remember what you’re talking about as you’re having a conversation.” It appears that Facebook is slowly figuring out that this balance is a little different for everyone. Tweet may have been deleted Now for the bad news: The fact that these options are showing up in the WhatsApp beta doesn’t mean it’ll appear in the final version anytime soon. In fact, the 24-hour option first appeared in a WhatsApp beta back in April, while the 90-day option showed up in a beta released on Wednesday. The new options are still probably going to show up in WhatsApp one day, just don’t expect it to necessarily happen very soon. Related Related posts: Group says hundreds tortured in secret prisons in Yemen UK announces COVID booster shot plan for older, vulnerable groups Did you remember? The 21st night of September? This comedian sure did. Ex-Gitmo detainee sues Canada over alleged role in his detention tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous England dropped most of its Covid restrictions. Here's how it's going next Sisyphus puns are on a roll on Twitter
