WhatsApp: You could soon be able to save deleted text messages

WhatsApp: You could soon be able to save deleted text messages
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WhatsApp: You could soon be able to save deleted text messages
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A new feature that makes it possible to disappearing messages that you’ve saved is being developed.

WhatsApp is reportedly working to make it possible for you to hold on to messages designated to disappear after a period of time. Some industry watchers who are privy to this development have provided more information about the expected change.

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Kept messages

WABetainfo, the independent portal that offers news and updates on WhatsApp suspects that the team at WhatsApp is designing a feature that allows you to exempt certain texts from vanishing. They discovered that the trick would apply to messages that are set up by their senders to be automatically deleted within a period of time after they’ve been sent. The folks at WABetaInfo explained:

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When someone keeps a disappearing message, it is saved forever for all people that take part of the conversation.But anyone can decide to restore its expiration by unkeeping it and nobody will be able to save it again.

Per their knowledge, the saved disappearing messages would be moved to a specially designated area of the app to be known as Kept Messages. It is rumoured that WhatsApp is developing this feature for the beta test version of the app.

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Group chats

Industry experts at WABetaInfo say the beta version also makes it possible for administrators of group chats to keep or upkeep messages within groups.

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There may be an additional group option that lets group admins manage this setting in the future, but this is only our personal guess.

Although it is quite certain that this feature is in the works, what remains unclear is when it would be made available to all users.

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Sources used:

WABetaInfo: WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.21.12: what’s new?

The Sun: Bizarre WhatsApp change lets you save deleted texts for first time

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