Whatsapp's 'delete for all' feature for photos, text, gifs learn to use it

WhatsApp's 'Delete for All' feature for photos, text, GIFs: Learn to use it

WhatsApp's 'Delete for All' feature for photos, text, GIFs: Learn to use it on Business Standard. Starting today, iOS, Android and Windows phone users can recall the wrongly sent messages

Latest News Are you guilty of ever sending a text message to a person it wasn't meant for? These mistakes are followed by embarrassment and waste of the receiver's time. The moment you hit enter, you are met with this sinking feeling of doom, knowing that you can't revoke the message.

WhatsApp, however, has now come up with a feature that may come to your rescue. Starting today, iOS, Android and Windows phone users can recall the wrongly sent messages or messages that are mistakenly sent to the other chats, through WhatsApp's newly developed feature. According to wabetainfo.com, the messaging application owned by social media giant Facebook had been working on this feature since 2016.

Delete for All feature The Delete for Everyone feature works for any message type in WhatsApp: text messages, images, videos, GIFs, voice messages, stickers (in future), contact cards, files, locations, quoted messages and status replies.

WhatsApp's Delete for Everyone feature doesn't work for in every circumstance: — Message contained in a quoted message cannot be revoked — Users can delete messages sent in a Broadcast List — Messages can be recalled only within 5 minutes of time frame — The feature works only if both sender and receiver are using the updated version of WhatsApp — The feature does not work for Symbian OS Learn to use this feature Step 1 Select the messages you want to delete.

WhatsApp will ask for a confirmation - Delete for Everyone, Delete for me and Cancel.

Step 2

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