Surprise. According to the indications found in WhatsApp Beta for Android by WaBetaInfo, one of the most important novelties of recent times is on its way to WhatsApp: to be able to edit a message after sending it.
Some messaging applications, such as Telegram, allow you to edit messages, although the truth is that it is not very common. Now it is possible that WhatsApp allow us to edit posts in the futureto perform the tests that the application performs internally.
Where I said “I say” I say something else
When you send a message on WhatsApp, sent remains. You have a little over an hour to delete the message for everyone, although there is a record of the deletion and you cannot edit it. In this way, if you send something wrong the only thing you can do is delete it and send it back, adding more “noise” to the chat.
In the future it might be easier, because the app works on the message editing function, as we can see in some screenshots from WaBetaInfo. We see there that, indeed, in the contextual menu of a message (after long pressing and clicking on ⋮) the menu is added Edit.
Editing WhatsApp Messages it’s not active yet and doesn’t seem very advanced either, because on the second screen, where you should be able to edit the message, nothing appears at the moment. The normal thing would be that we have a small text box there to be able to edit the message and resend it.
Being so green, at the moment we don’t know much about her, including whether to visually indicate that the message has been edited or if there will be a maximum time to edit a message from its sending. The normal thing would be for the answer to both questions to be yes, although we will have to wait to confirm it.
It is not the first time that WhatsApp plays with the idea of editing messages. The edit menu was first spotted in 2017, although, as we know, it came to nothing. We will have to wait to see if this time it is different.
Through | WaBetaInfo
