WhatsApp update: Now you have 2 days to delete messages after sending - Check details!

WhatsApp update: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has confirmed that it is now letting users delete messages up to two days after they are sent. The messaging application took to microblogging platform Twitte and announced the change in the option to delete sent messages.

"Rethinking your message? Now you will have a little over two days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send," the platform wrote on Twitter.

WhatsApp will allow users to delete a message up to two days and 12 hours after sending it. Previously, this limit was only 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 16 seconds. Last month, WABetaInfo, a website that tracks the latest updates on WhatsApp, revealed that messaging application is rolling out a different time limit for the “delete for everyone” option: 2 days and 12 hours. 

"WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.15.8: what's new? WhatsApp is updating the time limit to delete messages for everyone, for some beta testers," the WABetainfo wrote on Twitter.  

Meanwhile, the platform will soon release a new feature that will allow group admins the ability to delete messages for everyone.
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.22.17.12 and that will let group admins delete any message for everyone.

When you delete a message for everyone, sent by another group participant, other people can always see that you have deleted that message since your name shows up within the chat bubble. This is possible for group admins so they can moderate their WhatsApp groups better. The feature has been spotted last year.

Recently, the platform banned more than 22 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of June in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. It banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in the country in May. The messaging platform also received 632 grievance reports in June within the country, and the accounts "actioned" were 64.