WhatsApp has added one other useful characteristic replace, with customers now capable of edit despatched messages within the app for a interval after hitting ‘Ship’.

As you may see on this instance, you’ll now be capable to replace any despatched message, inside quarter-hour of submitting it, which can assist to handle small errors inside your DMs.

As per WhatsApp:

“From correcting a easy misspelling to including further context to a message, we’re excited to deliver you extra management over your chats. All you have to do is long-press on a despatched message and select ‘Edit’ from the menu for as much as fifteen minutes after.”

Edited messages will present an ‘edited’ marker alongside them, so readers are conscious of any corrections, although you gained’t have an edit historical past – so that you gained’t be capable to see what was edited, particularly, in every remark.

It’s a useful replace, which can assist with these notably annoying auto-correct points, when the context of your message may be misconstrued primarily based on submitting the improper phrase since you’re typing shortly. And the 15-minute window is an efficient period of time to catch any modifications – although you may at all times nonetheless clarify mis-types in a later follow-up if wanted.

WhatsApp’s new modifying replace is being rolled out to customers globally from right this moment, and can be out there to everybody ‘within the coming weeks’.