WhatsApp had introduced the new self-destruct feature for messages already in the in March released Beta-Version. WhatsApp-messages after the activation via the contact information or the group settings, the new Feature after an hour, a day, a week, a month or a year, automatically delete.
In the latest Beta Version 2.20.110 for Android presented some changes to the Feature, such as the always well-informed WhatsApp Blog WABetaInfo reported.
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First, the delete function now bears a different name: it Was in the menu, under the name of “Disappearing Messages” (dt. “vanishing messages”) and later as a “Delete Messages” (“deleting messages known”), has determined now on, the term “Expiring Messages” (“expired messages”).
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Also new: enabled the “Expiring Messages” are indicated by the respective Chats in the Overview with a little watch icon next to the profile or group image. Also in the open chat window, the icon is there to see how the Beta-Version for Android shows.
While the self-destruction function in a single chat for all the Beta-user selectable, may use in groups, at least for the time being, only administrators. WABetaInfo that the Feature is still in the test phase, a date for the Roll-Out for all WhatsApp users is not clear, therefore, still
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a further, already in previous Beta-versions of the function, introduced the WhatsApp have adapted to developers. In October 2019, had appeared in a Beta of the first hints that in the future a WhatsApp Account would be on multiple devices. As soon as a Chat Partner adds with the latest Beta-Version now, a new device to the existing Account, will be informed via a notification in the Chat. The Background: WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted to a new device is added to the Account, change the encryption code.
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forward of the most frequently shared news limited has Also restricted the Facebook owned Messenger, just this week, the function for forwarding messages. In order for WhatsApp wool to curb the dissemination of false news in relation to the current Corona pandemic. WhatsApp-messages that have already been forwarded very often, can be sent from now on, only one at a time to a Chat more, as the service announced. So far, that was up to five Chats at the same time.
With the increase in communication traffic in recent weeks, also an increase of the forwarded messages had to be established, shared with WhatsApp. Frequently forwarded messages that are already marked with a double arrow icon, can be transferred, therefore, from now on, only one at a time to a Chat.
In the Corona of the crisis, the spread of WhatsApp users in the last few weeks, among other things, the false claim about a connection with the 5G radio data, as well as other wrong messages.
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