WhatsApp is looking to extend the time limit for deleting sent messages for everyone

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The latest update is for WhatsApp beta for Android (version 2.22.15.8)

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It enables users delete messages for up to 60 hours after they were sent

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It protects you from deleting accidently sent messages

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This feature comes in handy when you want to take back what you’ve said.

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Or if there’s some factual error in your message and you want to rectify it

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You can’t just delete the message for everyone whenever you want.

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WhatsApp currently lets you do it within 1 hour, 8 minutes and 16 seconds

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WhatsApp is now significantly extending the time limit to 60 hours

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That’s 12 hours more than Telegram’s limit of 48 hours

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This change was first spotted in development in February this year

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