The “WhatsApp” application, which belongs to the “Meta” company, which owns the “Facebook” and “Instagram” applications, has launched a new feature that enables users to recover deleted messages within five seconds.


Before the new feature, there were only two options available to the user to delete messages on “WhatsApp”: the first is “Delete for me”, which hides the message from the user, but keeps it visible to everyone, and the second is “Delete for everyone”.


And if the user chooses, “Delete for me”, by mistake, instead of “Delete for everyone”, then he loses complete control over the message, without having any option to fix this error, which was annoying if he wanted to delete something sensitive from Group chat for example.


But from now on, if you delete a message only for yourself, by mistake, instead of the entire chat, you have a new option to fix your mistake, which is “delete by mistake”, which returns the message if it has not been deleted for more than five seconds, which is a period of time. It may not be long, but it is enough to fix a mistake like this. Once the message is recovered, the user can either choose to leave it or delete it again for “everyone” this time.


Regarding the new feature, information security consultants say, “WhatsApp, like other social media, has teams whose task is to monitor users’ interaction with its service, to solve the problems they face, and then facilitate the service for them, and provide the features they request.”