WhatsApp has added one other useful function replace, with customers now in a position to edit sent messages in the app for a interval after hitting ‘Ship’.
As you may see on this instance, you’ll now be capable of replace any despatched message, inside quarter-hour of submitting it, which is able to assist to handle small errors inside your DMs.
As per WhatsApp:
“From correcting a easy misspelling to including additional context to a message, we’re excited to deliver you extra management over your chats. All you’ll want to do is long-press on a despatched message and select ‘Edit’ from the menu for as much as fifteen minutes after.”
Edited messages will present an ‘edited’ marker alongside them, so readers are conscious of any corrections, although you received’t have an edit historical past – so that you received’t be capable of see what was edited, particularly, in every remark.
It’s a useful replace, which is able to assist with these notably annoying auto-correct points, when the context of your message may be misconstrued primarily based on submitting the mistaken phrase since you’re typing rapidly. And the 15-minute window is an effective period of time to catch any adjustments – although you may at all times nonetheless clarify mis-types in a later follow-up if wanted.
WhatsApp’s new modifying replace is being rolled out to customers globally from at this time, and will likely be accessible to everybody ‘within the coming weeks’.