WhatsApp announced on Monday that it is launching a new feature that allows users to edit messages up to 15 minutes after they have been sent .
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The revised message will be marked 'Edited,' and beside it, the time that it was edited will appear. The feature will be launched globally, including in Israel, in the coming weeks.
The new feature is meant to allow users to correct and revise messages and have greater control over their delivery.
To edit a message, all you need to do is press and hold on to the message you want to edit and select "Edit" on the menu. The recipient of the message will see that the message has been edited, but will not see its previous history. Just like regular WhatsApp messages, media and calls, edited messages are also protected and end-to-end encrypted.
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The new feature is meant to allow Whastapp users to correct and revise messages and have greater control over their delivery
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In the past month, WhatsApp has been introducing significant updates and presenting a long series of new features that users have long been requesting. Whatsapp's user pool includes approximately 2 billion people daily worldwide, who send around some 100 billion messages every day. The messaging service owned by Meta is the world's largest mobile-based chat platform, with only Telegram coming remotely close with around 400 million daily users.
Among the recent features added by the company are: polls in groups with an option to limit each group member's answer to only one response, and the ability to search for specific polls; ability to send photos and documents with captions, including the option to delete or edit them; temporary message storage, subject to the sender's approval; using the same WhatsApp account on different smartphones; direct payments to businesses through WhatsApp's chat; "Chat Lock," which allows application users to lock and hide chats.
WhatsApp seems to be trying to incorporate as many popular features from other chat services as possible. For example, features like captions for photos and group polls already exist on Telegram. The payment feature was copied from the Chinese messaging app WeChat, which also serves as an electronic wallet and identification method, among other functions.
This is part of Meta's effort to expand its revenue from the popular app, given that most of its services are offered for free.