WhatsApp will allow admins to delete any message from a group

For more than four years that WhatsApp allows us to delete messages sent in error to prevent them from being read, but so far this only allows us to delete our own messages, which seems to change soon.

Through WhatsApp beta 2.22.1.1 A new feature in development has been discovered by WABetaInfo, and they have managed to activate themselves to offer us the first screenshots of a feature that will surely be very well received by the administrators

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Delete all messages in groups

Everything indicates that in early 2022, the popular email client will add this new way to moderate a WhatsApp group, allowing administrators to delete any message that was sent to your group.

As we will see in the following screenshot, for messages deleted by an administrator, the message will appear “This message has been deleted by an administrator”, without saying who is the person who deleted this message. According to WABetaInfo tests, administrators will also be able to delete messages from other administrators.

With this future innovation, administrators will be able to maintain more order in their groups in power. delete unwanted messages

or that they depart from the rules or the theme of the group. They can no longer only kick one person out of a group but also their messages.

But that’s not all, WhatsApp seems to want to extend the time we have to delete a message. At first it looked like it was going to eliminate the 4096 second delay but in the source code of WhatsApp Desktop it seems like it was pointless to extend it to seven days and eight minutes.

Via | WABetaInfo
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