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Last year, WhatsApp rolled out an ephemeral messages feature. However, those messages were visible to the other person for seven days, and that’s quite a lot of days for information you want to disappear.
The company has been working on a feature that lets you send‘view once’ photos and videos, and now it’srolling it out to beta versionsof the app across platforms.
Here’s how you can use it:
The person you sent it to will then get this image,without any preview, and will only be able to view it once — as compared to regular images
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As WhatsApp’s information label about the feature notes, anyone can take a screenshot of the image you sent and preserve it forever. However, if they exit the window, the image is gone.
This is a handy feature for sensitive images or documents you want someone to look at, but not leave a trace. Happy messaging.
Story byIvan Mehta
Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.“Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.”
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