WhatsApp’s disappearing messages feature is no longer as good as it once was because recipients can now choose to keep the temporary message – but with a catch.
Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new modification to the chat app’s nuke-after-reading feature in a broadcast message shared on his Instagram channel.
The development of the world’s most used chat app has been referred to as a sender superpower, and if it runs as described, it will continue to give the sender authority over the message’s ultimate fate. This is because the sender is notified when a recipient attempts to save a message, and the sender has the option to choose whether it should vanish or be preserved. Quite a nice catch for those who were worried…
However, if you choose to retain a disappearing message, what is the purpose of sending it as a disappearing message in the first place? Anyway, let’s hope that the rollout is faster than the…
