In the wake of releasing the feature on Android last month, Facebook is appearing WhatsApp self-deleting media and texts on iOS through a new beta release, as indicated by WhatsApp information site WABetaInfo.
If you sign up for the beta version 2.21.140.9 on Testflight, you’ll have the option to send photos and videos that fall to pieces when they’re seen and dismissed. Clients with access to the “view once” feature will see a committed catch taking after a clock in the caption input field.
Not at all like WhatsApp’s disappearing messages, which erase following seven days, photos and videos sent utilizing view once mode will disappear following you close them. The sender will be informed when their media has been seen.
As WABetaInfo takes note of, there’s nothing stopping clients from taking screenshots of media and you will not be told if a beneficiary has done as such. As a beneficiary, you can’t impede the sender from being informed in the wake of opening the message, by the same token.
WhatsApp has promoted the feature as an approach to support more authentic and private conversations. Parent Facebook recently said that select features would be blocked from clients who didn’t acknowledge its divisive new privacy policy, however it later backtracked on that choice.