Last year,
WhatsApp rolled out this feature to allow its over one billion user base to
revoke messages in case they sent those to a wrong person or a group.
If someone has
quoted your message on WhatsApp before you delete it, you will still be able to
see that message rendering the 'Delete for Everyone' feature ineffective, a media
report said.
Last year,
WhatsApp rolled out this feature to allow its over one billion user base to
revoke messages in case they sent those to a wrong person or a group.
Users can only
delete messages for everyone for up to seven minutes after sending.However,
tech website The Next Web reported that quoted messages in chats continued to
show in quotes even after they were wiped.
It said that
this is not a bug and is a part of the the feature.If a user sends a message
and deletes it from a group or individual chat within seven minutes, the
message will disappear.
However, if
within these seven minutes, that message is quoted then the original message
will successfully disappear but the deleted text continues to show in the
recipient's quote.
Interestingly,
there is no mention of how the feature works in cases of quotes in the
WhatsApp's FAQ.This comes following the reports in which researchers claimed to
discover other shortcomings in WhatsApp's implementation of deleted messages.
In one
particular flaw discovered by Spanish tech blog AndroidJefe, it was possible to
recover deleted messages from the Android notification history. "Relying
on third-party apps, users could browse the notification log to read purged
texts," the report said.
The Independent
later pointed out that this approach could only recover deleted messages that
were read or interacted with.
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