Present The world’s most popular messenger service listens to the demands of its users
ANDl messenger service WhatsApp It is constantly being renewed, and now the developer team already has a function ready that allows messages to ‘self-destruct’ after a certain time, as configured by the user.
After enabling the use of the fingerprint to restrict access to the application to ‘curious’, The most popular messenger service in the world aims to meet one of the highest demands of users, so now allow messages to have a certain lifetime to later be destroyed.
Although initially this adaptation was planned to land in individual conversations, finally the developers decided that, for the moment, they only arrive for the groups, in order to reduce their saturation with old messages that only occupy phone memory and limit their performance in some cases.
The periods contemplated before the self-destruction of the messages range from one hour, one day, one week, one month and one year, and only the administrators of the groups are authorized to enable and disable it. Notably the function is only available, at the moment, in the beta versions of the application in both iOS and Android, but it is expected that in the coming weeks it will reach the final version.
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