WhatsApp has added new disappearing messages tools, as it looks to make conversations more private.
The new options will allow people to turn on disappearing messages for all their chats at once, meaning that no conversations will stick around any longer than they need to.
Users can also choose from a variety of options for how long messages should last. Previously, they were limited to seven days – but that can now be set at 24 hours or 90 days, after which the conversations will be destroyed.
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WhatsApp’s bosses have previously said that the aim is to have all messages delete themselves by default, in keeping with an aim to ensure that conversations can’t be spied on and are kept int he moment.
The change was made to give people the “freedom to be honest and vulnerable, knowing that conversation isn’t being recorded and stored somewhere forever”, it said in a blog post. The current default of storing all conversations forever are “the equivalent of a note taker following us around making a permanent record of everything we’ve said”, it said.
