People often make silly mistakes like sending messages intended for our partners to our parents or sending conversations about a boss with a colleague to the office WhatsApp group. This was addressed by WhatsApp as the company allowed users to delete the sent messages. WhatsApp only allowed users to delete a message for everyone in the chat within the first seven minutes of it being sent.

However, in the latest update, the Facebook-owned messaging app is expected to soon extend the timeframe in which a message can be deleted. Earlier, the messaging app had introduced the 'Delete for Everyone' feature last year in November, but, the condition was that users were allowed to delete a sent message within 420 seconds or 7 minutes. However, reports now say that the company will soon allow users to delete a message in 4096 seconds, that is, 68 minutes and 16 seconds to be exact.

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The new feature is currently available to beta users of WhatsApp. To be precise, the feature is part of WhatsApp's beta version 2.18.69. Apart from the extended timeframe for recalling a message, the beta update also comes with the ability to forward Stickers, an upcoming addition to the instant messaging platform.

To delete a sent message, Android users simply have to long-press on a message and tap on the delete icon. After that, tap on 'Delete For Everyone' option. On the iPhone, long-press the message, choose 'Delete' from the menu, tap on the icon, and then tap on 'Delete for Everyone'. You can also select multiple messages to delete at once.

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There's a catch though. To be able to delete the message for everyone, both the sender and receiver need to be on the latest version of WhatsApp for Android, iPhone or Windows Phone.

Another popular workaround that lets you access deleted WhatsApp messages, even after seven minutes, involves disabling mobile internet and Wi-Fi on your phone. Next, choose Settings  choose Apps  WhatsApp and hit the Force Stop option.

Source: WABetaInfo