WhatsApp’s ‘delete for everyone’ feature has a major flaw
Looks like WhatsApp’s recently launched new feature, which allows users to delete embarrassing messages isn’t completely full proof. Reportedly, this feature will not work when a user has already quoted the message, you wish to hide.
According to a report by The Next Web, it would appear that this feature works the same way in group chats and private chats as well. Apparently, this isn’t a bug but in fact, is a part of the feature.
Up until now, if a user sent a message and deleted it from a group or individual chat within seven minutes, the message would 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 respectively. There is no clarification provided in the WhatsApp’s FAQ as to how this feature works.
For a while now, researchers have discovered shortcomings in WhatsApp’s implementation of deleted messages. Recently, a report claimed that recipients can easily have access to the deleted messages as they are saved in the device.
According to Spanish Android blog Aandroidjefe, the deleted message is present in the notification centre of the recipient’s smartphone. …read more
