Using WhatsApp Disappearing Messages can be a simple way to add some extra security to your conversations and protect your sensitive information. Disappearing messages can be enabled by default for new chats, or on a conversation by conversation basis. We’ll go over how to use this feature to ensure confidentiality.
Firstly, let’s look at how to enable disappear messages for all new chats. Go to your WhatsApp settings by tapping the three dots at the top right corner of your chat screen. Scroll down to ‘Account’ and then tap ‘Privacy’. You’ll see an option for ‘Default Media Visibility’ however the disappearance capability is under a different tab ‘Default Managed by’: tap it and change the default to be the administrator in the tab named
Secure Chat on Desktop but in Mobile it appears as Account Settings: here we can turn on or off disappearing messages across all the new chats that you will be creating.
If you want to enable disappear messages on a conversation-by-conversation basis, you can do that as well. In any chat you want to send a disappearing message to, swipe to the right on the message you want to send until you see the trash-like icon. Tap on this icon to enable the disappearing option. When you send the message, you’ll see a little clock icon in the message area signifying that the message will disappear after a set amount of time.
Keep in mind that disappearing messages can have a set amount of time set against each, there are several options available including 1 hour and a set duration durations in which the sender can define up to the message gets deleted. The recipient will be notified when this time limit is up and they will see the message area with an empty chat history it will only stay in your chat for whatsapp网页版 the pre-configured time.
