Thanks to this new feature, you can customize the messages sent on WhatsApp

Everyone knows it: you type a WhatsApp message quickly, you get distracted for a moment and OOPS, your message was sent with an error in it! Such situations are now a thing of the past, because WhatsApp introduces a new function that allows you to edit messages up to fifteen minutes after they have been sent.

“Whether you want to correct a misspelling or add extra context to your message, we’re happy to give you more control over your conversations,” reads a blog post from messaging service WhatsApp. The feature will be available globally to its 2 billion users in the coming weeks.

Not invisible

How do you edit a sent message? Tap on your message to bring up the menu And he chose for “edit”. This is possible up to fifteen minutes after sending. The corrected message will then be marked as “edited”, so that the recipient will know that the content has been modified. The recipient cannot see the first figure of the message.

Editing sent messages was already possible with many competitors, such as Apple’s iMessage and on Telegram, Signal and Slack. On Twitter, only paying members can use this feature. And now WhatsApp users can too. Would you like to test the new feature? Make sure to update your WhatsApp in the coming weeks!

This article first appeared on Metro: https://www.metrotime.be/nl/geek/thanks-this-new-function-can-adjust-your-sent-messages-on-whatsapp