As you may see on this instance, you’ll now be capable of replace any despatched message, inside quarter-hour of submitting it, which is able to assist to deal with small errors inside your DMs.

As per WhatsApp:

“From correcting a easy misspelling to including additional context to a message, we’re excited to carry you extra management over your chats. All you might want to do is long-press on a despatched message and select ‘Edit’ from the menu for as much as fifteen minutes after.”

Edited messages will present an ‘edited’ marker alongside them, so readers are conscious of any corrections, although you received’t have an edit historical past – so that you received’t be capable of see what was edited, particularly, in every remark.

It’s a helpful replace, which is able to assist with these notably annoying auto-correct points, when the context of your message will be misconstrued based mostly on submitting the improper phrase since you’re typing rapidly. And the 15-minute window is an effective period of time to catch any adjustments – although you may all the time nonetheless clarify mis-types in a later follow-up if wanted.

WhatsApp’s new enhancing replace is being rolled out to customers globally from as we speak, and can be out there to everybody ‘within the coming weeks’.