Within a month, the WhatsApp social messaging platform will publish the temporary message feature, where you can activate this option for each conversation.

In his article published in the French newspaper "Le Parisien", the writer, Damien Licata Caruso, said that WhatsApp added the option to delete messages that you made a long time ago, and you may have forgotten them.

The WhatsApp instant messaging platform will provide a new option for "temporary messages" that allows for the deletion of sent messages.

"When the temporary messages option is activated, the new messages sent will disappear after 7 days, which adds a more private character to the conversation," the Facebook affiliate said in a post it shared on its blog.

There are still some subtle details that should be taken into consideration before going ahead and sharing messages and jokes on this app.

Photos and videos

If you reply to a temporary message, the text of the conversation may remain for a week.

But when a temporary message is transferred back to a conversation, this option is not activated, so the message will not disappear after 7 days of that conversation.

The controlled self-destruct option also applies to photos or videos that will be preserved if you choose automatic download in the chat settings and save to the image file.

The messaging application used by nearly two billion people specifies that "in individual conversations, each of the two participants can activate or deactivate temporary messages. As for groups, their moderators control the option to activate this feature."

The writer pointed out that after this option was introduced on Messenger, Facebook would apply it to its basic messaging service.

The idea of ​​temporary messages is inspired by its rival Snapchat, the leader in ephemeral messaging.

Facebook aims to keep pace with the development, and to attract more young people who have become more attracted to applications such as Snapchat and Tik Tok.