Happens often: seconds after sending a message Whatsappmany realize that they have got the tone wrong or that the text had some mistake of typing. For this reason thousands of users have asked for a function for edit messages.
And while Meta promises that it’s only a matter of time before it goes live, the function to edit messages in WhatsApp it hasn’t arrived yet to phones.
In fact, it seems that editing messages in WhatsApp or WhatsApp Web is about to be releasedbecause in one of the latest preview versions of the application they already have this feature fully installed.
The first step of the “edit messages” function will fall on WhatsApp Desktopeven if at the moment there is not much news on its definitive landing.
What will be the edition of messages in WhatsApp
To use this function which will allow you to modify the content of an already sent message, there will be a tolerance limit. Since they will have fifteen minutes to correct them.
Once the modification is complete, a “modified” sign will appear under the text. However, contacts will not have access to an edit history, nor will the edit time be detailed via the “Message info”.
The information managed by Wabetainfo is less propitious, since apparently, It will first be implemented on iOS and later it will come to Android.
The latest WhatsApp beta for iOS devices already shows the behavior of editing a message in a conversation chat when the versions are not compatible.
Version 23.4.0.72 for WhatsApp for iOS indicates that work on this feature continues and is very close to release as compatibility is already being talked about.
The problem is that when someone edits a message, but the other person doesn’t have the compatible version of WhatsApp, they will receive a warning message to update the application.
Edit messages on WhatsApp: a trick to get out of trouble
For extreme cases, there is a trick which can be applied to get out of trouble, even if you need to do a few more rides.
The feature doesn’t work within the app, but can be activated by WhatsApp code using root or admin tools.
To access message editing, you need to edit the WhatsApp configuration XML in three different places (flags): when you send edited messages, when you receive them, and when you edit messages.
Once the XML is edited on a rooted mobile, the message edition opens to edit any conversation in the last fifteen. Here it works differently from Telegram, which allows you to edit any message regardless of its delivery date.
To access the edition, press and hold the message to edit, click on the three dots in the menu and finally click Edit. A text box will appear in which to write the desired message while the old one remains on the screen.
Once this message has been edited, it changes on the recipient’s mobile and on the one that received the message (it also works in batches). The recipient receives a notification that a shipment has been changed.
Source: Clarin
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