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  • Tech - Tips And Tricks
  • Updated: Feb 09, 2021

WhatsApp's Disappearing Messages: How To Use The New Feature On Android, iPhone

WhatsApp's disappearing messages feature is one of the new features introduced by WhatsApp to Nigeria recently. The new feature automatically erases WhatsApp messages after a certain period of time.

The details of this feature are already on a FAQ page created by WhatsApp, and users can enable this option to delete messages for individual or group chats after seven days. 

How to enable disappearing messages

To enjoy this new feature, ensure you have the latest version of WhatsApp installed on your smartphone. To get the latest update, go to your Andriod Play store or Apple store for iPhones. For Android users, that would be version 2.21.206.15 and for iPhone users, that would be version 2.21.121.4.

Once this is done, go ahead and follow these steps to enable disappearing messages in WhatsApp.

  1. Open a WhatsApp chat > tap Contact Info > scroll down to find the Disappearing Messages feature.
  2. The feature is disabled by default. Tap Continue, followed by tapping On to enable this feature.
  3. You'll have to enable this feature individually for each chat. Once you do, your messages will automatically be deleted after seven days.

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You can not decide the duration before the messages disappear in a chat, this means that the only option you have is to wait for seven days. Competing apps like Telegram give users multiple options to choose from but WhatsApp has decided to start with just a single time setting.

It is also possible to store the disappearing messages before they are deleted, i.e. by copying these messages and storing them at a different location. The same applies to media files as well, one can always take a screenshot and save a photo before it gets deleted.

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