WhatsApp allows you to delete the photo after sending. How will it work?

March 5, 2021 Bary Howards

WhatsApp is preparing the ability to automatically delete the photo after sending. This feature can enhance security, privacy and help many users. However, it depends on how well the developers implement it. How will it work and help protect users?

According to the latest analysis, the WhatsApp application is preparing the possibility to automatically delete photos after sending. Facebook has probably begun to develop more features to enhance user privacy and security. After this year’s mass migration of users from WhatsApp to safer alternatives such as Signal, he probably has nothing left. The ability to set automatic deletion of photos after upload is nothing new and the competition already offers this feature. According to the current implementation, this seems to be delete photos in the conversation would occur after closing the current conversation window. The photo is also not automatically saved in the recipient’s photo library.

WhatsApp is working on self-destructing photos in a future update for iOS and Android.
• Self-destructing photos cannot be exported from WhatsApp.
• WhatsApp didn’t implement a screenshot detection for self-destructing photos yet.

Same concept from Instagram Direct. ⏱ pic.twitter.com/LLsezVL2Hj

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It already offers a similar feature Snapchat, but with the difference that it notifies the sending user if you the recipient makes a screenshoot of the screen. However, the current implementation in WhatsApp does not include this advanced feature. However, we do not yet know when WhatsApp will offer the option to delete the photo after sending it to users, so this feature may still be evolving. However, it is always true that what you send once over the internet can always be recorded on the other side. For example, no one prevents a recipient from taking a photo of the display with another device.