WhatsApp Reportedly Working on Disappearing Messages Feature: Here’s How it Works

Under the Group Settings menu, users will be able to see a new option called ‘Disappearing Messages,’ with different intervals. The time intervals would be five seconds and one hour. If a user chooses five seconds time interval, then the messages will be removed for every five seconds. It will work similarly if a user chooses the time interval as one hour.

The report further adds that the feature is currently under testing for Group chats, but we may expect the company to release it for individual chats as well, something which will be very useful to the users. As mentioned above, WhatsApp has just begun the development of the feature and there’s no estimated time of arrival given by WABetaInfo as well.

WhatsApp Disappearing Messages: Will it Be Useful?

Disappearing messages feature will be rolled out to WhatsApp very soon, but the real question is: will users make use of the upcoming feature? Probably, yes. Right now, there are a lot of users who delete their individual chats very frequently, but once the disappearing messages feature rolls out, users will no longer be able to delete the chat frequently.

At times, a user will be forced to delete the current chat due to some reasons, but in the older messages, there may be some important information which he/she doesn’t want to remove. The Disappearing Messages will also provide the users with an additional choice of not deleting a chat entirely, instead, they can use this feature hidden inside the settings to not store the current messages. This feature will also remove the hassle of removing unwanted messages manually and the users will not have to look back to delete the unwanted messages as well.

In other news, WhatsApp is now rolling out 2.19.275 beta version for Android users and the changelog for this update is not available. However, we’re expecting the company to fix some issues which were present in the previous beta build for Android users.