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KOMPAS.com – There are many features available in an application that are not fully understood by users, including WhatsApp.
Known as an exchange application message which many people use, there are useful features that users may not know about.
One of them is a feature disappearing messages.
Through this feature, users have control over all messages in the conversation on this application.
This feature is available for WhatsApp users on Android, iOS, KaiOS, and desktop, so it can be a possible solution for tapping or reading messages by hacker.
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Disappearing messages
Disappearing messages or delete messages automatically is a WhatsApp feature that allows messages to be deleted automatically after seven days.
This setting will have no impact on messages that have been sent or received in a conversation.
However, to make this feature work optimally, the sender and recipient of the message must both activate it.
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Citing a page WhatsApp, in a conversation between individuals, each user can activate and deactivate this feature.
Meanwhile, in group conversations, only admins can enable or disable the feature.
Here are things to know about this feature:
- If someone doesn’t open WhatsApp within seven days, the message will disappear. However, preview the message may still be displayed on the notification until WhatsApp is opened.
- If you reply disappearing message, the text excerpt may remain in the chat after seven days.
- If disappearing message forwarded to a conversation that has this feature disabled, the message will not appear in that conversation.
- If the user makes a backup before a message disappears, disappearing message will be included in the proposal. Disappearing message will be deleted when the user restores the backup.
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How to activate disappearing messages
As for how to activate the feature disappearing messages are as follows:
- Make sure the WhatsApp application has been updated to the latest version
- Open a WhatsApp conversation
- Tap on the contact name
- Scroll down and select it disappearing messages (if prompted, select Continue)
- Select On
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How to deactivate
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Meanwhile, the ways to disable this feature are as follows:
- Open a WhatsApp conversation
- Tap on the contact name
- Scroll down and select disappearing messages (if prompted, select Continue)
- Select Off
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Things that need to be considered
However, WhatsApp warns against using this feature with people it trusts.
Because, this feature allows other people to do the following:
- Forward or take a screenshot from disappearing message or save it before it’s lost
- Copy and save content from disappearing message before disappearing
- Take a photo from disappearing message with a camera or other device before it disappears
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