WhatsApp increases the time limit to delete unintentionally sent messages

Everybody has regretted sending unintentional messages to wrong persons many times. To overcome that mistake, Facebook-owned WhatsApp introduced the feature to delete unintentionally sent messages last year. However, the time span to delete these unintentional messages was only 420 seconds(seven minutes). But now the social messaging company has decided to increase the time limit to 4,096 seconds(one hour, eighteen minutes and sixteen seconds, which is almost 10 times the previous number).

WABetaInfo has noticed that the latest version of WhatsApp extends that time limit significantly to one hour, eight minutes, and 16 seconds. The feature was spotted in Android beta, and it looks like this has been rolled out to iOS and Windows versions of the WhatsApp as well.

A new WhatsApp for iOS update (2.18.31) is available on AppStore.

It is a bug fixes update, but it has the new “Delete for everyone” limit, that’s 1 hour, 8 minutes and 16 seconds.

— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) March 8, 2018

According to the WABetaInfo, the company also introduced an additional feature called “Block revoke request,” which ensures that the feature will now check if the message saved in the database, which is to be deleted for everyone, is less than 24 hours old when applying this request. The post points out that this will make sure no-one can illegally delete messages older than 24 hours for everyone.