Do you often send Whatsapp message to the wrong recipient by mistake and always wish you could delete it ? Then there's a good news.
The messaging app has rolled out its new "Delete for Everyone" feature under which users can call back wrongly sent messages, however, both the sender and receiver should have the updated version of WhatApp.
It has started to offer the feature to some users on Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone apps.
The new feature is not only applicable for text. GIFs, texts, images, voice messages, locations, stickers (in future), contact cards, quoted messages and status updates can also be deleted, according to an India Today report.
Through a FAQ WhatsApp informed: "Deleting messages for everyone allows you to delete specific messages you have sent to either a group or an individual chat. This is particularly useful if you sent a message to the wrong chat or if the message you sent contains a mistake."
Whatsapp notes, "Messages you successfully delete for everyone will be replaced with "This message was deleted" in your recipients' chats (*). Similarly, if you see "This message was deleted" in a chat, it means that the sender deleted their message for everyone."
However, the messaged can be deleted for everyone for up to seven minutes after sending. "Once seven minutes have passed, there is no way to delete messages for everyone," the FAQ says.
In July, the messaging app had claimed to have crossed the one-billion daily users milestone globally.
"Just last year, we shared that one billion people around the world use WhatsApp every month. Today, we are excited and proud to share that one billion people around the world use WhatsApp every day to stay in touch with their family and friends," WhatsApp had said in a statement.
Its monthly user base -- people who use WhatsApp at least once in a month -- stood at 1.3 billion.
The Facebook-owned company said about 55 billion messages and 4.5 billion photos are shared every day globally on its platform. The app, which supports 60 languages, also sees 1 billion videos being shared on a daily basis.
India is the largest market for WhatsApp with over 200 million monthly active users as of February 2017. The company did not disclose what percentage of the 1 billion daily users are from India.
(With PTI inputs)
