WhatsApp has begun testing a function that enables customers to edit despatched messages on the most recent beta model of its Web app. The Meta-owned messaging service was beforehand noticed engaged on a pop-up alert that knowledgeable customers after a message was edited. Now, the power to switch a textual content message after it has been despatched has been rolled out to some beta testers. At the second, customers have a brief length after a message is shipped earlier than enhancing is disabled.
Version 2.2319.9 of WhatsApp Web comes with a brand new function, in line with WhatsApp function tracker WABetaInformation. Users who’re operating this model of the WhatsApp Web shopper will see a brand new motion Edit message on the right-click menu. It is value noting that the power to edit messages is at the moment restricted to textual content messages.
Users will solely have 5 minutes to edit a message after it has been despatched, in line with particulars shared by the function tracker. You can edit a message a number of occasions, and enhancing messages works in chats and in teams, WABetaInformation says.
Users have as much as 5 minutes to edit a message after it has been despatched
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It is value noting that when iOS 16 was launched final yr, Apple introduced the power to edit texts despatched by way of the Messages app inside quarter-hour, however every textual content can solely be edited 5 occasions.
While the power to edit messages is at the moment solely obtainable on the most recent beta model of WhatsApp Web, the function tracker claims that the function is prone to make its method to the beta variations of WhatsApp for Android and iOS quickly. WABetaInformation says that an alert informing customers {that a} message has been edited has been noticed on WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.10.10, including that that is most likely the ultimate step earlier than the function is rolled out for testing.Â
WhatsApp just lately rolled out a variety of options together with the power to create single-vote polls, seek for polls in chats by utilizing filters, and obtain notifications when group members vote on a ballot. Users also can ahead media together with exiting captions, or take away these captions whereas forwarding messages from one chat to a different. They also can add captions to paperwork, in line with the messaging service.
