It's the most popular messaging app in the world, but is it the best? Definitely not as there are many better alternatives than WhatsApp but we won't deny it, it works really well and this is more than enough for many users.
Despite its popularity, updates are not very frequent on WhatsApp. While the new features that are added are really useful, the truth is that many of them are already competing.
One of the latest news coming is the messages that disappear automatically or that is the same, an option that automatically deletes our conversations after a week. And when we say that they are eliminated, it is that they are completely canceled, without a trace.
Now, this option has its own peculiarities, so before activating it in all your conversations you need to really understand how this interesting and useful option works (sometimes).
What you should know about messages that are automatically deleted by WhatsApp
The new WhatsApp feature can be really useful, but do you really know how it works?
Activating this option in WhatsApp is really simple. You just have to go to a contact's or group's conversation, click on the information in this chat and activate the “Temporary Messages” option, which is disabled by default. In this way, when seven days have passed, all messages from conversations in which we have activated this option will disappear, including images and documents. All this without a trace, not even the "X deleted message" message that appears when we delete a message from a conversation.
This option obviously can be really useful not only to fill our WhatsApp history with irrelevant conversations but also to delete the memory, suitable for users who have low-end or low-memory phones.
While there are better alternatives, WhatsApp is the leading messaging app
However, we need to know how this option works. Ok, we know it is used to automatically delete messages after 7 days but there are some aspects to take into consideration if we don't want to take some other unpleasant surprises.
- First, if the recipient of our messages does not open the chat within seven days, will be able to read deleted messages in smartphone notifications as they are not deleted.
- The same happens if the recipient replies directly to our messages or forwards them to other conversations, these are also not deleted.
- If the chats are saved and then loaded, i messages that were once deleted will reappear.
- This WhatsApp option does not prevent our recipients to take screenshots of our conversations and save them.
- If our recipient downloads the photos or documents from the chat on their phone, they will not be deleted from the smartphone memory even if they disappear from the conversation.
Therefore, before activating this option it is important to know how it works one hundred percent. If you really don't want to leave a trace of your conversations, you better not write anything you may regret in the future.
