After photos and videos, text messages are about to get View Once support in WhatsApp – here’s what you need to know.
, WhatsApp released a new privacy feature called “View Once” that allowed users to send photos and videos that would auto-delete after the recipient received them. Not to be confused with ephemeral messages, View Once removes the content immediately, preventing the recipient from saving a photo or video. WhatsApp will now expand the View Once feature to also support text messages, which is a feature that’s already available on other platforms.
WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat apps to feature end-to-end encryption. That means no one other than the parties involved in a chat can read or intercept the messages. It’s an important privacy feature to have on a chat app.
On top of that, people can also send ephemeral texts, which vanish after a specified amount of time.
