The instant messaging app is testing the ability to edit messages. It will therefore soon be possible to correct a spelling error in a message sent a little too quickly.
Seeing a huge spelling mistake in a hastily sent message has probably happened to you. Unfortunately, not all messaging apps provide post-correction. This is the case of WhatsApp which, surprisingly, does not currently have any function to correct a message already sent.
An edit function under test
Although it is late on this point, the instant messaging application could very quickly return to the race. For more than a year now, WhatsApp has been working on an editing feature to correct messages. But since then, this function which was being tested in the Android version of the application, seemed to have been put on hold by the developers of WahtsApp. But new elements show that the developers are still working on it. WABetaInfo, a website that specializes in analyzing WhatsApp betas, unearthed clues in the latest beta of the iOS app that point to the imminent arrival of this editing feature. According to the elements discovered, the application will impose a delay of only a few minutes to correct a message sent too quickly. A priori, you will not be able to edit the messages sent after 15 minutes. A restriction similar to that implemented by Apple with its iMessages. However, the editing function imagined by WhatsApp should be less complete. It does not allow, at least for the moment, to access a correction history as proposed by Apple. Messages in a conversation that have been corrected will only be identifiable by their “edited” label.
Fixes incompatible with older versions of WhatsApp
However, this functionality seems to be far from being finalized. In the latest beta version of the application on iOS, WhatsApp has added an alert system that will appear on the screen when you receive a message that has been edited, but the version of your application is not compatible. The notification will therefore ask you to update your application, otherwise the edited messages cannot be displayed in the conversation.
In addition, the functionality would currently only be compatible with text messages. Unless WhatsApp looks into the matter, it seems impossible to correct the text associated with multimedia content that you have shared.
WhatsApp developers are busy. At the beginning of the week, the application, which was updated to iOS, inaugurated the Picture-in-Picture mode which allows video calls to be displayed in a remote window when you leave the application. More recently, WABetaInfo also revealed that WhatsApp was working on a new function allowing you to create and subscribe to newsletters directly in the application.
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