The developers of Meta have almost finalized the edit message feature for WhatsApp, which has been a long-standing demand of users of the messaging app.
While it’s still not quite ready to go live, we’re now learning a bit more about how the feature will work.
WABetaInfo explored WhatsApp beta 2.22.22.14 to see how its implementation will eventually work. For example, it looks like the app will give users up to 15 minutes to edit their messages after they’re initially shared.
Once modified, the message will appear with a label making it clear that it has been modified, along with a timestamp showing when it was sent.
We still have some questions about how edits will sync between devices, and what happens if the recipient is offline during that edit window, so we’ll have to wait for a future beta to get more insight there. can
While this is progress, we still know very little about WhatsApp’s launch timeline for message editing. When it arrives, will we get any kind of Twitter-style visible edit history? Could the implementation work like Slack’s message editing feature? We look forward to finding out.
