Messages disappearing from WhatsApp have been with us for several years as a way. automatically clear chat history of old messages. Another innovation that WhatsApp is working on allows you to save some of these lost messages so that they are not lost. The tongue twister doesn’t end there.

WhatsApp will not allow you to save a lost message if the person who created the message has decided to delete the message. This way you can prevent a disappearing message from being lost unless the author of the disappearing message decides. that you cannot save the lost messageIn this case, the message disappears.

Mystery of messages disappearing

WhatsApp allows us to mark messages that we want to have more of as highlighted, but things get complicated when messages self-destruct is enabled in a chat because all messages magically disappear after 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days. number of days depending on the configuration. WhatsApp is preparing to prevent this save a private message for casual chats.

This feature has been in development for a while and is not yet live for users, but it will basically replace the star of messages with a new bookmark icon. Temporary messages we save will be accessible from a special section of the chat (just like the ones highlighted today) and open, these messages will not be automatically deleted.

So far everything is normal. The complication arises as WhatsApp prepares an additional twist. You cannot save a message if the author has chosen not to save it., in which case you will get the above warning window courtesy of WaBetaInfo. “The message cannot be saved” because “the author of the message has sent the message, so no one else can save it again in this chat”.

Thus, in a temporary chat we will have the option to save any message to prevent it from being deleted, but there will be exceptions: some messages cannot be saved, if the author so decides. It must be admitted that it is logical, but much more messy than absolutely necessary.

via | WaBetaInfo