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16th October 2018
10:59am BST
We all love the sacred Whatsapp Group chats which were made for plans that are never adhered to, work conversations about the boss and bitching sessions galore.
And nearly all of us have been caught out by sending a message to the wrong person or putting an 'inappropriate meme' in the work group chat.
And a few months ago, Whatsapp answered our prayers by introducing the 'delete' button.
A gift from the Gods some might say.
But this feature is about to change and update in a serious way that will do no one any favours.
It will now become more difficult to delete messages because there will now be a time limit to how long Whatsapp will spend trying to erase the message from a users' chat.
This means that a mistaken message might still be read by the recipient.
According to WhatsApp update tracker WABetaInfo, Whatsapp will now only try to delete messages for 13 hours, eight minutes and 16 seconds.
Meaning that if you send a message by mistake to someone and if their phone is dead for more than the time limit above, they will still get the message.
LIMITS UPDATED!
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) October 11, 2018
WhatsApp has updated the "Recipient limit".
What does it mean? If you delete a message for everyone, but the recipient won't receive the revoke request within 13h, 8m, 16s (maybe because the phone was off), the message will **not** be revoked.
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This updated feature will be rolled out on November 12.
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