Six years after the first tests, WhatsApp seems to confirm the development of an option to modify its sent messages. A new closed beta update, available since Wednesday, February 22, reveals a little more about how this novelty works.
After Twitter, it’s WhatsApp’s turn to take the plunge! On Wednesday, February 22, a new update to the messaging app was shared through its closed beta program on iOS, the iPhone operating system. This version 23.4.0.72 of WhatsApp prepares a feature eagerly awaited by its users: modifying a message already sent.
An option that could soon make it easy to correct typos or omissions. Although the application already allows you to delete a sent message, this one does not disappear completely.
15 minutes maximum to modify
The development of this feature had already started on Android in May 2022, reports the site WABetaInfo, specializing in WhatsApp updates. Six months later, a first version of message editing also saw the light of day through the iOS closed beta. This first version of November 2022 has made it possible to detail the operation of this new feature: after sending a message, pressing it for a long time displays the various usual options to which is added a button ” Edit “. Changing the text will add a small ” Editedto the relevant bubble.
At the moment, this function is only available 15 minutes after sending the message, and only if they contain only text. It is therefore impossible to edit a message containing a photo or video for the moment, although WABetaInfobelieves that this could be added later. You can’t access a history of changes either.
Six years later, WhatsApp is trying again
The Wednesday February 22 update therefore continues to improve this tool, adding an error message intended for older versions of WhatsApp that will not support this feature: “You have received an edited message. You can read it if you are using the latest version of WhatsApp.Modifying your message afterwards will therefore prevent recipients from seeing its content if it does not have the latest application update.
The release of this function therefore seems close… but it was already the case six years ago. As remindedWABetaInfoa first version of this functionality was born in 2017 via the closed beta of iOS, before disappearing a few days later. Presumably, like Twitter, the Meta group’s messaging system wanted to prevent its users from manipulating the meaning of a conversation by modifying their messages long after. The current 15 minute limit is probably there to avoid that.
The feature is still inaccessible to WhatsApp’s open beta, says the news siteWABetaInfobut itThis second update seems to confirm Meta’s desire to go all the way this time.
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