Surely on more than one occasion you have thought about "earth swallow me" when you have sent a message by WhatsApp, imagining the repercussion it could have for the recipient or recipients if it is a group taking into account that there was no going back, since the messaging platform did not allow us to delete sent messages. Practically since the arrival of Telegram to the market, Mark Zuckerberg's boys have gone slipstream of what Pável Dúrov's application added in his messaging application
Despite all the advantages and benefits that Telegram offers us compared to WhatsApp, it is still used by a very small minority of people. One of the functions that has been available practically since the launch of Telegram, that of delete sent messages, just made its official appearance on WhatsApp.
In Telegram when you delete a sent message, it simply disappears from the chat of the interlocutors, without leaving any trace. However, true to its habit of creating controversy, WhatsApp does not work in the same way, since when we proceed to delete a message, it will disappear from the interlocutor but will leave the following message instead: This message has been removed.
Obviously once our interlocutor has read it, there is little we can do, but if it is not the case, the elimination of this message will cause more than one discussion almost in all probability. To delete the messages sent from WhatsApp, we just have to put ourselves in the message in question, press on it with your finger for more than a second so that the available options appear, from which we have to select Delete for all If it is a group, or Delete for me, if we do not want to see the message we have sent, something that does not make much sense, no matter where you look at it.
It was about time this feature was available, it could have saved me more than one bad drink.