WhatsApp Users Can Now Save Disappearing Messages If the Sender Consents

[MacRumors]

WhatsApp has announced a new option for disappearing messages conversations that lets recipients keep individual messages if the sender approves the request.

"Keep in Chat" enables users to long press a disappearing message and ask to keep it, which sends a notification to the sender: "Someone kept your message so they can refer back to it." The sender can then either allow the save to go ahead or veto the request.

From WhatsApp's blog post:

Today we're introducing "Keep in Chat," so you can hang on to texts you need for later, with a special superpower for the sender. We believe if you've sent the message, it's your choice whether others in the chat can keep it for later.

WhatsApp says that if a user decides their message can't be kept by others, their decision is final – no one else can keep it and the message will be deleted when the timer expires.

• How to Enable Disappearing Messages in WhatsApp

If a recipient asks to save a disappearing message and the sender allows it, the message gets a bookmark icon to indicate that it can be found in the user's kept messages folder, which is organized by chat.

WhatsApp says the feature is rolling out globally in the next few weeks.

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[klasma]

I’m just trying to imagine the MacRumors forums with disappearing messages.

 

[timber]

Don't think i would use this but I can see its usefulness.

 

[VampyricGentleman]

Sounds like a good idea, also going to reiterate my wish for native iPad and Apple Watch apps

 

[iLondoner]

What would be more useful is the ability to reject disappearing messages, and tell the originator to either send a proper message or not at all.

 

[bax2003]

Cool, fantastic, just WOW.....what about message editing.... Some messengers have it since Paleolit.

 

[Blackstick]

I have a cousin, about 19 who uses this disappearing feature. It's pretty creepy. And pushing 40, I have minimal memory, so he better like repeating himself.

 

[scuac]

Can you just take a screenshot?

 

[cyanite]

Can you just take a screenshot?

That will always be possible, of course. Or take a picture with another camera. Or write down the message. Or memorize it.

 

[thislsmadness]

Can you just take a screenshot?

No it blocks you. They even stripped support out of the web/desktop version because they couldn't stop screen shotting on those platforms.

 

[scuac]

No it blocks you. They even stripped support out of the web/desktop version because they couldn't stop screen shotting on those platforms.

Never heard of an app blocking a built-in iOS feature like that.

 

[d686546s]

Never heard of an app blocking a built-in iOS feature like that.

Some apps on my work iPhone do that, although I didn't know this was also possible in the general consumer space.

 

[EmotionalSnow]

Never heard of an app blocking a built-in iOS feature like that.

Netflix has done that since -- if not ever then at least years. When you try to screenshot the movie/series goes black and the only thing visible on the screenshot is the subtitles, that is if you have them enabled.

 

[canadianreader]

Can you just take a screenshot?

Or export chat to PDF

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[Contact_Feanor]

Never heard of an app blocking a built-in iOS feature like that.

try screen recording or even screenshotting in Netflix

 

[svish]

Will definitely be useful for many

 

[duncandb]

What would be more useful is the ability to reject disappearing messages, and tell the originator to either send a proper message or not at all.

I totally agree with you on that.

 

[Reason077]

Disappearing messages are going to be a great boon for dishonest and corrupt politicians, who are always getting tripped up by their WhatApp trails, at least here in the UK. No more! Now all your shady dealings can just... disappear! Poof!

 

[true god]

Don't worry FB saves everything.

 

[SB1500]

2023 and we’re having silly conversations about ‘consent’, commonplace these days 🥴

 

[SB1500]

I’m just trying to imagine the MacRumors forums with disappearing messages.

They already do!!!!

There’s a rule that you can’t comment on the moderation now ….. (ps mods, I am stating the rule. Not commenting on any decision you’ve made..)