Coming soon to Facebook Messenger: retracting sent messages

Viber, WhatsApp as well as Instagram let yous to take away an erroneous message for both the sender as well as the recipient(s) as well as instantly Facebook is working on a like characteristic for Messenger.

The social networking behemoth has quietly announced this upcoming novel characteristic inwards the changelog accompanying Messenger’s 191.0 update that striking App Store concluding evening.

Here’s what it reads:

Coming soon: Remove a message from a chat thread later on it’s been sent. If yous accidentally post the wrong photo, wrong information, or message the wrong thread, yous tin easily right it yesteryear removing the message inside 10 minutes of sending it.

I’m glad they’re adding this characteristic to Messenger.

I can’t recollect the lay out of times I sent totally wrong messages to the wrong people because I wasn’t looking unopen plenty or perhaps I was actually tired or out alongside friends partying. The mightiness to retract whatever sent message inside a reasonable timeframe should salve us from the embarrassment as well as misery of having our mistakes preserved eternally.

Facebook concluding calendar month previewed around of the novel features coming to Messenger.

Aside from a simplified navigation as well as a re-skinned darkened interface, Messenger iv volition endure getting colouring gradients, customizable chat bubbles as well as other perks.

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