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- WhatsApp will now let you send ephemeral messages — but they’ll last 7 days
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Thursday, 5 November 2020
WhatsApp is finally rolling out ephemeral messages, the ones that’ll disappear after a fixed amount of time. There’s a catch though. Your disappearing messages will last for seven days on the chat. “Our goal is to make conversations on WhatsApp feel as close to in-person as possible, which means they shouldn’t have to stick around forever. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the option to use disappearing messages on WhatsApp,” the Facebook-owned chat app said in a statement. WhatsApp has been experimenting with this feature in the app’s code for a while now. However, as WABetaInfo has noted, these tests…
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