WhatsApp has added one other helpful function replace, with customers now in a position to edit sent messages in the app for a interval after hitting ‘Send’.
As you may see on this instance, you’ll now have the ability to replace any despatched message, inside quarter-hour of submitting it, which can assist to deal with small errors inside your DMs.
As per WhatsApp:
“From correcting a simple misspelling to adding extra context to a message, we’re excited to bring you more control over your chats. All you need to do is long-press on a sent message and choose ‘Edit’ from the menu for up to fifteen minutes after.”
Edited messages will present an ‘edited’ marker alongside them, so readers are conscious of any corrections, although you received’t have an edit historical past – so that you received’t have the ability to see what was edited, particularly, in every remark.
It’s a helpful replace, which can assist with these notably annoying auto-correct points, when the context of your message may be misconstrued primarily based on submitting the unsuitable phrase since you’re typing rapidly. And the 15-minute window is an efficient period of time to catch any modifications – although you may all the time nonetheless clarify mis-types in a later follow-up if wanted.
WhatsApp’s new modifying replace is being rolled out to customers globally from in the present day, and might be accessible to everybody ‘in the coming weeks’.