How to delete WhatsApp Messages sent 7mins and beyond

in technology •  7 years ago  (edited)

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Imagine you sent a message a recipient on WhatsApp platform and instantly find out after hitting on the green button that the message was inappropriate, wrong or at worse sent to the wrong recipient.

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Recently, WhatsApp rolled out a feature begged on by her users, it enables users to delete a message sent within 7 mins. On both senders and recipient’s mobile phone.
But as the saying goes, human wants are never satiable, they are certain times we do wish for a message sent even above the provided 7 mins to be deleted on all communicating parties devices due to some errors or confidentialities but you can't because the 7minutes of retract has expired? ,
This is the good news.
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Follow the below steps to find out how to delete a sent message anytime ever!!!
Step1 ✅Navigate to the messages you wish to delete.
Take note of the time the message was sent.
Step2✅ After recording the time the rogue message was sent . place phone in flight mode.
Step3✅ Go to your settings>Apps>WhatsApp and click and "force stop" your WhatsApp.
Step4✅ Navigate to the time settings of the phone, and set the time to any thing between 1min and 7mins after the message was sent.
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Note:

You need to put off your automatic date and time in order to be able to change the time and date

Step5✅ Navigate to the message you wish to delete and delete for all. Congrats now you can now have rest of mind knowing that the rogue compromising message of yours is safe in your pockets.

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