Although it is not the best messaging app that we can install on our smartphone, WhatsApp is undoubtedly the most popular tool in the world. The first has arrived, replacing paid SMS and despite the stiff competition that exists today, no one can take his throne away from him.
WhatsApp works more than correctly, but it's not the safest app and it's not the best supported app either. Its developers find it quite difficult to add interesting news, and many of it has long been rivals.
WhatsApp has recently added a new function which consists in the disappearance of messages. That is, it is an option that, once activated, makes conversation messages disappear after seven days.
When we say disappearing is disappearing, nothing to leave a notice that the message has been deleted, no trace. This can be useful for deleting minor conversations and incidentally freeing up terminal memory, but it is not an option that we should leave turned on in all our contacts and groups.
There are times when having our messages automatically deleted can be harmful to us, so we leave you 3 times it is not recommended to activate disappearing messages on WhatsApp.
In work groups
WhatsApp is one of the most popular apps in the world
While not the most desirable, many have a WhatsApp group with colleagues and their boss. In these groups, not only memes and jokes are sent, but sometimes useful information, documents and even jobs are sent from the manager.
Imagine that our boss makes us an important order or sends us a document and for having activated this option, we lose it. One option is to ask another colleague to provide us with all this information but… of course it is much better to turn off automatic message deletion and heal.
If you are self-employed or have your own business
If you don't want your business to go broke, don't activate the automatic deletion of conversations in WhatsApp
If any of you are self-employed or have a business, surely he used WhatsApp to communicate with customers or suppliers. Honestly, it's not the most correct but we won't deny it, it's really convenient to use tools like WhatsApp Business.
Also in this case it is not recommended to have the WhatsApp message deletion function activated. Losing customer orders, canceling a conversation about payments, problems or disputes because the goods arrived badly… many times we need these messages to prove something in particular, so losing them can be really bad for our business.
Certain private conversations
While there are better alternatives, WhatsApp is the leading messaging app
It is possible that many of our conversations with acquaintances or friends are superfluous, so it may also be advisable to automatically delete WhatsApp messages. However, in certain situations it may be necessary to retrieve a conversation or some specific data from a chat.
This is solved by taking screenshots of the conversations to save them in the gallery, but the truth is that it is quite inconvenient to keep the captures of every interesting or important conversation.
As we can see, the new WhatsApp feature can be quite useful on many occasions. In WhatsApp we usually store meaningless conversations that are useless and that do nothing but consume the phone's resources, so having this option activated can be something especially useful for those users who have low-end or old smartphones.
Now, it should be borne in mind that automatic deletion of WhatsApp messages is not something foolproof. The recipient can take screenshots of the conversations, the forwarding and replies are not deleted and if an image or document is downloaded, it will only be deleted from WhatsApp but not from the phones on which it was downloaded (obviously).
So, if you don't want something we've written to last forever, have common sense and better not write it.
