Soon there will be an option to save messages that disappear on WhatsApp , as contradictory as it may sound, and right now there is an option in the messaging app that allows you to write messages and have them deleted after a while, an option that will be improved.
We are talking about the functionality of temporary WhatsApp messages that, once enabled, causes the messages you write in a specific conversation to be deleted after a previously chosen time from your phone and also from the other person’s.
The truth is that the functionality has been with us for a long time, but the options for the automatic deletion of messages do not make much sense, especially since there is an option that deletes them after 7 days and by then they have probably already been copied, forwarded , etc.
These two ways are methods to keep a temporary message, and precisely WhatsApp according to WABetaInfo would be developing a new way to keep them with us and it would be to save them on our phone so that they are not deleted .
In other words, the user could choose one or more messages and check the “keep message” option , so that, although the conversation has the functionality of temporary messages marked to be deleted later, those messages are kept.
There will also be another option so that messages that are selected can be automatically deleted . There are not many more details about this functionality, but it is most likely that this option is available in the menu that opens when we want to delete a message.
It is a novelty that makes sense in some situations, for example, although in a conversation you have temporary messages activated and it means that they will be deleted soon, you might be interested in not deleting one in particular and this is what this option allows.
Probably, the possibility of saving specific messages once the functionality of ephemeral or temporary messages of WhatsApp has been activated will reach the version of the app for iOS and Android, but it is in a very early stage of development and there is still a long way to go.
