WhatsApp will enable customers to edit messages inside a restrict of quarter-hour

WhatsApp has given customers one in every of its most anticipated options: the flexibility to edit messages.

“For occasions if you make a mistake or simply change your thoughts, now you can edit your despatched messages on WhatsApp,” the Meta Platforms Inc-owned messaging app stated in a weblog submit on Monday.

“Edited messages will present ‘edited’ subsequent to them, so these you message know in regards to the correction with out exhibiting edit historical past,” WhatsApp stated.

The characteristic will roll out globally within the coming weeks. Senders will be capable of modify their messages inside quarter-hour of urgent ship.

To make use of the characteristic, customers have to long-press on the message they need to change and select “edit” from the dropdown menu.

Competing apps like Telegram and Sign already enable customers to edit messages. Final 12 months, Apple additionally launched the choice to unsend and edit messages despatched via iMessage.

In September, Elon Musk’s social media platform Twitter additionally introduced that it was testing the enhancing possibility and rolled it out to paying subscribers.

Based on Jay Sullivan, Twitter’s head of shopper merchandise, “edit” was essentially the most requested Twitter characteristic “for a few years.”

“We hope that with the supply of Edit Tweet, tweeting will really feel extra accessible and fewer traumatic,” Twitter stated in a weblog submit.

“You must be capable of take part within the dialog in a manner that is sensible to you, and we’ll proceed to work on ways in which make it straightforward to do this,” he stated.

Fb, additionally owned by Meta, launched the flexibility to edit posts and feedback a few decade in the past.