WhatsApp is altering the best way the platform handles media despatched over chats with disappearing messages enabled, experiences WABetaInfo.
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Going ahead, WhatsApp will now not routinely save photographs and different visible media to your iPhone’s Pictures library if they seem inside a chat thread that has disappearing messages turned on. The “Save to Digicam Roll” choice is now routinely turned off for disappearing chats, which means photographs, movies, and GIFs will not be saved even when the final auto-save setting is enabled.

The earlier default of saving photographs from disappearing chats to the Pictures app was a discrepancy given the privateness focus of disappearing messages, so the change is more likely to be welcomed by those that rely on the function to share delicate media.

Having stated that, WhatsApp customers can nonetheless manually save media that seems in disappearing chats they’ve obtained, and even take a screenshot of the chat thread, so what you ship utilizing the function can nonetheless be doubtlessly saved by the recipient after the message has disappeared.
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In one other change coming to WhatsApp and highlighted by WABetaInfo, the drawing interface is being tweaked in order that the blur device seems on the backside of the display screen, the place it’s going to sit alongside two new drawing pencils.

The change to the best way WhatsApp handles media in disappearing messages is rolling out now to all customers on iOS, nevertheless it’s not clear when the drawing interface tweaks will come out of beta and be made out there to the chat platform’s wider consumer base.

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