Last minute news! WhatsApp and Mark Zuckerberg himself just announced a new function for the messaging tool a few minutes ago: save temporary messages. But, in addition, a “super power” has been included that allows those who send these messages to have definitive control over them. If someone tries to copy them, the sender will be warned and can protect them.
Keep in chat
WhatsApp says that they understand the use of temporary messages in their tool, because there are times when users do not want what they write to stay around permanently. But they are also aware that there may be times when these messages are to be preserved.
This is why a new feature known as Keep in Chat is introduced. With it, temporary messages are no longer totally temporary in specific cases in which you want to keep them. But there is a very important detail to take into account: the person who sent the message is the one who has complete control over this function. How does the system work?
A superpower to be in control
The person who originally sent the message is always the one who will decide if it can be saved or not. Thus, when someone tries to save the message, the person who sent it will receive a warning notification and WhatsApp will ask them if they have made the decision to allow the message to be saved or not. Therefore, no message can ever be stored privately without notifying the original sender. In this way, the app wants to help make communications between users freer, but without losing the importance of guaranteeing privacy in WhatsApp, something the application has been committed to in recent years.
What happens when a message is saved? WhatsApp shows them with a marker icon that helps to carry out their identification. In addition, they are organized according to the chat they come from, so it is easy to see them without having to search through the different messages that have been saved over time. All these saved messages will be in a folder known as “Keeped Messages”.
