Disappearing WhatsApp messages made available to everyone in November
WhatsApp is testing a new “useless” feature: disappearing photos for Android and iPhone
The topic resource WABetaInfo drew attention to the development of a new function. We are talking about disappearing photos and images that can be sent in the versions of the messenger for Android and iOS.
Such photos cannot be exported or copied from the chat. However, there is no function for detecting attempts to take screenshots. The innovation is not yet available to users, and the exact release date has not been named.
Featured media are seeing some irony in the attempt to increase privacy with a new messaging format amid new rules that users need to adopt on May 15th. Members of the community of mobile developers XDA Developers called the innovation “as useless as disappearing messages.”
Disappearing WhatsApp messages became available to everyone in November 2021. The messenger does not interfere in any way with taking screenshots and does not even warn the sender about such attempts. According to XDA Developers, this makes the feature completely useless.
