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Last year, WhatsApp introduced an ephemeral message feature. However, these messages last for seven days, which is a very long time for something that should go away after sending.
Fortunately, the chat app is working on a new mode that allows you to send ephemeral images, and these disappear as soon as you leave the chat.
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There are a few important points to note here. First of all, you can’t save these photos to your gallery or copy them to any other app. This is good because you don’t want your sensitive photos to be exported outside of the app.
WhatsApp is working on self-destructive photos in a future update for iOS and Android.
• Self-destructing photos cannot be exported from WhatsApp.
• WhatsApp has not yet implemented screenshot detection for self-destructing photos.Same concept of Instagram Direct. ⏱ pic.twitter.com/LLsezVL2Hj
– WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) March 3, 2021
However, there is no screenshot detection feature yet. So, someone could potentially take a screenshot to keep track of a fleeting photo. WABetaInfo noted that disappearing messages in Instagram Direct works the same.
Since this feature is under development, it hasn’t even reached the test versions of the app. But we’ll keep an eye out for its release and write a detailed guide on how to send endangered images in WhatsApp.
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Published March 3, 2021 – 12:26 UTC
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