A few days after Facebook teased the launch of its “remove message” feature for Messenger, the company has started to roll it out to users in several countries around the world. Earlier, if you sent an awkward message or mixed up your chat threads and sent something to the wrong one, you could only remove it from your own phone, and not from the recipients’. But with this new button, you can ‘unsend’, messages will be delete from all devices.
But recently Facebook has launched a new button in its messenger option to make the things easier. The company has created new button, which is accessible at the foot of chat threads. This button now offers a way to remove a message from all devices that received it.
The Working
Well, in order to use the feature, all you do is long-press the message you want to get rid of and then tap on the “remove” option that appears at the bottom of the screen. After that, you’ll be asked whether you want it taken off everyone’s device or only your own. Tap on the former and you’ll see a note saying: “You’ll permanently remove this message for all chat members. They can see you removed a message and still report it.”
So, finally, with tap on “remove” to confirm your choice and your original message will be replaced with a message notifying others in the thread that the message has been removed. On the other hand, Facebook says it will keep a removed message for “a short amount of time” should it need to refer to it in the event an abuse report is filed.
According to Facebook, this feature has been launched initially for Messenger users in Poland, Bolivia, Colombia, and Lithuania. And after mid of November, it will appear for users globally “as soon as possible,” The new feature is known an “unsend” tool, but the main thing it that, you only have 10 minutes to do it. In that time it will erase it from all devices, in which time it could have been read by others.
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