{"id":198614,"date":"2022-08-16T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=198614"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:31:31","slug":"important-whatsapp-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/important-whatsapp-update\/","title":{"rendered":"This might be the most important WhatsApp update yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WhatsApp Groups offer a fantastic way to stay in touch or just up to date with lots of friends and family all at the same time. Speaking in larger forums, however, brings with it an element of risk as we all sometimes say things that perhaps we shouldn\u2019t. Being able to delete for everyone messages we send to the group gives us a second chance to take back what we shouldn\u2019t have said. WhatsApp, however, has one last trap in this situation because <strong>if you hit Delete for Me instead of Delete for Everyone, your misplaced message will stay there <\/strong>for everybody else to see and there will be absolutely nothing you can do about it. Fortunately, however, it looks like <strong>WhatsApp is working on giving you another second chance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"WhatsApp\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto,dpr_2\/p\/cc03a0ea-96d0-11e6-9905-00163ed833e7\/1398466786\/whatsapp-icon.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">WhatsApp<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the imperious vigilance of the WhatsApp <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-22-18-13-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beta testing community<\/a>, we can bring you news of <strong>a new Undo Delete message feature that is currently in testing<\/strong>. The feature will give you a window of opportunity to undo the deleting of your messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever used the Undo Send feature on email clients like Gmail, then you will have an idea of how this feature will work. Basically, <strong>whenever you delete a message, you will get a small notification bar<\/strong> showing up for a few seconds at the bottom of the screen that will <strong>give you the opportunity to undo the deletion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The feature is <strong>currently rolling out to certain beta testers<\/strong>, but not all. This means that it is still going through the early stages of beta testing and could still be some way off from a general rollout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have ever felt that devastatingly embarrassing feeling when you\u2019ve locked in a message you wanted to delete by deleting it just for you instead of for everyone, then you will understand the importance of this feature. It might only seem to be a minor tweak but make no mistake<strong>, when this rolls out to all users it will be the most important WhatsApp update ever for some users.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp news<\/a>, groups may soon have a <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/articles\/whatsapp-trialling-group-approval-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new approval system to help decide who can and who can\u2019t enter WhatsApp group chats<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image via: <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-22-18-13-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WABetaInfo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp Groups offer a fantastic way to stay in touch or just up to date with lots of friends and family all at the same time. Speaking in larger forums, however, brings with it an element of risk as we all sometimes say things that perhaps we shouldn\u2019t. Being able to delete for everyone messages &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/important-whatsapp-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This might be the most important WhatsApp update yet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":198617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-198614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323371,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198614\/revisions\/323371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198614"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=198614"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=198614"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=198614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}