Once again, the guys from WhatsApp, far from sitting around thinking about adding innovative features To the most used messaging platform in the world, they have launched the copy machine, something that unfortunately we are accustomed to since it does not offer the innovation that one would expect from a company like Facebook.
Leaving aside, the changes in the company’s privacy policy that will allow it to share user data with Facebook (something that does not affect Europe), WhatsApp is working on adding new functions, functions that, this time, they remind us of Snapchat and one of the features that made this app popular a few years ago.
I’m talking about the self-destruction of images that we share on the messaging platform. According to the guys from WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has been working on this function for some time, a function that for now (in the current beta), allows images to be saved in the library, however it seems that this function will not be the case in the end, since the Image will disappear when you leave the chat window where it is located.
The solution is to make a screenshot. On Snapchat, the user who has sent the image receives a notification if a user has taken a screenshot, however, in the current beta, WhatsApp does not send any notification to users who have taken a screenshot.
Once they were copying a function, at least they could bother with copy functions correctly, as otherwise they are half-functions that don’t make sense. At the moment we do not know when the launch of this new functionality is planned.
Knowledge before self destruction
Before sharing an image via WhatsApp, when the function to destroy the image is available, you must sit back and think if it’s really worth the risk that we can run by sharing it. A screenshot or a recording of it are more than enough to record an image and who sent it.
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