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WhatsApp Group Admins Will Soon Be Able To Delete Messages For All: Here's How

Are you an admin on a WhatsApp group where conversations tend to get out of hand? Meta-owned WhatsApp may be bringing some relief to your admin woes.

According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is testing a feature that lets WhatsApp group admins delete messages for everyone. While there is no official confirmation about this feature by WhatsApp, it appears to be under consideration by Meta.

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New powers for WhatsApp group admins

Taking another page out of the more functional rival Telegram, WhatsApp’s delete-for-all function for group admins may start appearing in the upcoming beta versions of WhatsApp for both Android and iOS.

Once available, WhatsApp group admins will be able to delete messages shared by any group participant. Once it is deleted by an admin, the following message is displayed – “This was deleted by an admin.”

Also read: WhatsApp For iPhone Gets Three New Features: Play-Pause Recording, Focus Mode

With this feature, WhatsApp group admins could get new moderation powers. Current versions of WhatsApp do not allow group admins to delete messages for everyone. Instead, admins have the ability to add or remove people from the group.

 Not too long ago, Bombay and Madras High Courts ruled that WhatsApp group admins cannot be held responsible for content that may be shared on the group.

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For now, deleting messages for others is allowed by a sender on WhatsApp. After hitting send, you have an hour, eight minutes, and 16 seconds (4,096 seconds) to delete a message. Many users refer to this functionality as “unsend.”

Also read: WhatsApp Two-Step Verification Coming To WhatsApp Web And Desktop App Soon

Once available, it is possible that WhatsApp group admins could get the ability to delete older messages. Although this seems highly unlikely, for most radical updates like this one are designed for future use.

What do you think about this ability to delete messages for WhatsApp group admins? Let us know in the comments below. For more in the world of technology and science, keep reading universo virtual.com

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