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Sent a wildly inappropriate text meant for your boo to, I don’t know, your boss? Now you have some extra time to save face and delete it – well, if you’re using WhatsApp at least.
WhatsApp users now have a little over two days after sending a message to delete it instead of just one hour, the company announced, today.
To start using the new feature right now, open up the WhatsApp group or individual chat you sent the message(s). Make sure to tap and hold the content you want to get rid of, click “Delete,” and then select either “Delete for everyone” or “Delete for me.”
Yet before you go off on a deleting spree, be aware there’s a (slight) catch: all recipients must be update to the most recent version of WhatsApp in order for this to…
