Along with the possibility of use a single account on two different smartphonesor of have reactions with emojisthat of being able to modify messages after sending is one of the most requested functions over 2 billion WhatsApp users in the world. And the company, which is part of the Meta group, seems willing to listen to them.
As one understands screenshot posted by the always knowledgeable Wabetainfo, soon we will really be able to change the text of a message after sending it. It will work like this: long press on the message you want to correct, so as to select it; click on the 3-dot menu and then click your Edit (in Italian it will probably be Modification); made the changes, the message can somehow be sent again.
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It is not yet clear if there will be one time window for editing messages, i.e. if the Edit option will be available only for a limited number of minutes, and especially if the edited messages will be characterized by some highlighting to make it clearer that they have undergone surgery. But this is likely to be the case, as the writing already appears today This message has been deleted on removed messages.
It is not even clear yet when this feature will be available: the screenshot is taken from the latest beta of WhatsApp for Android, so it shouldn’t be long before it can be tested by beta testers. Also because the company has been thinking about this possibility since 2017, traces of which have also been found in the beta version 2.17.26also for Android.