New WhatsApp function: This is how self-destructive messages work - but there is a catch

WhatsApp now has a new feature that deletes messages after seven days.

You can find out what users need to know here.

• New messages, pictures and videos are deleted from WhatsApp *

  after seven days

• If you want to use the setting, you have to

  activate it

  individually

  for

  each chat

• WhatsApp * users can use these tricks

  to save expiring messages

Mountain View -

been working on it for a

long time

*, now it's official: The chat function

gets a new feature.

With the setting

, new

should be

after

.

If a user does not open WhatsApp for seven days, the messages also disappear automatically.

However, they may still see a preview of the message in the notifications.

As the messenger service further reports, old messages that were previously received or sent remain.

Automatically delete Whatsapp messages: This is how the new feature works

Activating the setting is

for each

chat

.

For

, however, a different rule applies: There only can

decide whether the automatic deletion is to be activated or not.

The new function of the popular Messenger app * can be found in the chat history by clicking on the name of your contact.

You will

find

it there as the option

.

However, the setting is currently not available.

As Chip reports, however, it is quite possible that the self-deleting messages can be activated with the next update.

Warning: Self-deleting messages should only be sent to people you trust

The new WhatsApp function has a significant catch, however: WhatsApp warns that expiring messages

in which the function is not activated.

Because the message doesn't disappear there.

Messages can also

.

But

photos of the content of the message can

also be taken with

.

With the appropriate knowledge, the "self-destruction" can thus easily be avoided.

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