WhatsApp releases messages that erase themselves

One of the biggest problems caused by WhatsApp it is precisely the amount of memory that the smartphone's console application, usually by accumulating media such as photos or videos, but one thing that most ignore is the fact that the messages themselves also occupy this space. Soon it will be possible to configure your application on the messages that erase themselves on WhatsApp, check out how!

How to delete messages in individual chats?

In fact, the messenger of the Meta already has this function, however, you must activate it in each chat you have for it to actually work. To do so, choose the contact you want messages to be deleted, access your profile, click on “Temporary messages” and enable the feature. At this point you will receive instructions from the application on how the function works, which is as follows: all messages have an expiration date, and after 7 days, they expire — that is, messages that erase themselves

With the new update, which arrives gradually for users, you will be able to choose between keeping messages for 24h, 7 days ou 90 days.

How to enable messages that clear themselves by default?

The novelty here is the fact that you don't have to choose contact by contact to have to activate the Temporary Messages function in all of them. It will now be possible for this setting to be automatically applied to all chats. To do so, you must do the following:

• Open the application WhatsApp;
• Click on the gear icon, “Settings";
• Click on the “Account Log In” (which is usually a blue icon with a key);
• Click on "Privacy";
• And here the news will appear: click on “default duration".

When performing this procedure, you will be able to choose between the periods available to determine when messages will be automatically deleted from chats, being available by 24h, 7 days ou 90 days. If you have activated it and you no longer want messages to delete themselves, choose the last option to deactivate this function.

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