WhatsApp Announces New Feature, You Will Soon Be Able To Edit Sent Messages

Do you type a message in haste and regret after sending it? Do you sometimes feel that you could do things differently if there was an edit option for the sent messages on WhatsApp? If yes, then WhatsApp has announced an update that will make you super happy. You will soon be able to edit messages on WhatsApp after they’ve been sent. Yep, you read that right! Owned by Facebook’s Meta, WhatsApp will allow you to edit the sent messages and here’s everything you must know.

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The Editing Option Will Be Available Only For 15-Minutes

The instant-messaging service app will launch this feature worldwide, and folks in the UAE will soon get the update too. Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive of Meta, announced that feature would be available to WhatsApp’s 2 billion users in the coming weeks. However, there’s one catch that you must know of. The editing option will only be available for 15 minutes after the message is sent.

WhatsApp in their blog post on Monday, said, “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 blog post added, “Edited messages will display ‘edited’ alongside them, so those you’re messaging are aware of the correction without showing edit history. As with all personal messages, media and calls, your messages and the edits you make are protected by end-to-end encryption.”

This new feature announcement comes after Meta shared that WhatsApp will soon get a Chat Lock feature where users can lock and hide conversations from the app’s primary inbox. The messages will be kept in the hidden folder and accessed only with a password or facial recognition/fingerprint.

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We cannot wait for these features to roll in; they will surely make texting and chatting simpler.