WhatsApp would be trying to restrict the downloads on your smartphone of any multimedia file sent from a temporary message in order to maintain its privacy and security.
Not all messages have to be saved forever, in some cases because they are not important and in others because it is better that no one can read them again. Whatever the case may be, WhatsApp introduced temporary messages more than a year ago and since then it has introduced several new features.
The company extended the periods in which a message would disappear, enabling the times of 24 hours, 7 days and 90 daysand in August it re-introduced a new update that allowed send photos and videos that could only be viewed once. Now according to WABetaInfothe company wants to introduce another novelty to this function.
All users, both from iPhone as Androidreceive an update Prohibit the download of any media files sent from the temporary messages feature. This will disable the ability to automatically download any photo, video or GIF file listed as temporary on our phones.
The reason why WhatsApp has made this decision is logical, and is due to the company’s objective of guarantee the privacy of its users. Since if a person decides to send a temporary message, they will have their reasons, so it does not make sense to go back to a multimedia file if it has been sent as a temporary message.
Despite this, you will still be able to save media files manually, and in fact several users with certain versions of Android already have this function available, iOS users can continue saving files as they always have. The beta version will be rolled out to everyone in the next 24 hours.
To activate temporary messages in your WhatsApp account, you have to open the name of the contact, where you will find the option to Activate temporary messages to then be able to customize it so that it deletes the messages at the times you want.
