Users of WhatsApp will soon be able to edit messages, a feature already present in Telegram and Signal as well as other messaging services.
The Meta-owned app stated that messages could be edited for up to 15 minutes after being delivered in a Monday update. Within the next several weeks, the updated feature is anticipated to be made available to WhatsApp with approximately 2 billion users.
The company said in a blog post on Monday that it was “excited to bring you more control over your chats,” adding that “from fixing a simple misspelling to adding extra context to a message.”
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An “edited” notification will be presented next to messages that have been edited, but the edit history will not be visible, making it impossible for users to see what the post originally said. By pressing down on a message and choosing “edit” from the pop-up menu that appears, the feature can be used.
“From correcting a simple misspelling to adding extra context to a message, we’re excited to bring you more control over your chats. All you need to do is long-press on a sent message and choose ‘Edit’ from the menu for up to fifteen minutes after. ”, the company wrote in a blog post-Monday.
Several competing messaging services, including Telegram and Signal, already include message editing capabilities. In the meanwhile, Twitter gives users of its Twitter Blue service a 30-minute message editing window.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Meta, alerted people to the WhatsApp change by posting a screenshot of the message on his Facebook page, which had been edited from “Beast of luck!” to “Best of luck!” About ten years ago, Facebook, which is also owned by Meta, began to make it possible to alter posts and comments.
Users can modify posts on Instagram, a Meta social media platform, but not comments. The UK government and Meta are at odds over the latter’s most well-known feature, end-to-end encryption, which makes sure that only the sender and recipient can see messages.
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In recent years, Meta, which also holds Instagram and Facebook, has been renowned for attempting to copy rival apps—some of which have been more successful than others. Following an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the fleeting photo app Snapchat, the company launched Instagram Stories in 2013 with considerable success.
Later attempts to imitate the neighborhood communication app Nextdoor and the celebrity video app Cameo, however, were both abandoned by the company.
According to recent reports, the corporation is getting ready to release a Twitter clone as early as June with an emphasis on “creators and public figures.”
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