Sent a wildly inappropriate substance meant for your boo to, I don’t know, your boss? Now you person immoderate other clip to prevention look and delete it — well, if you’re utilizing WhatsApp, astatine least.

WhatsApp users present person a small implicit 2 days aft sending a connection to delete it alternatively of conscionable 1 hour, the company announced today.

To commencement utilizing the caller diagnostic close now, unfastened up the WhatsApp radical oregon idiosyncratic chat wherever you sent the message(s). Make definite to pat and clasp the contented you privation to get escaped of, click “Delete,” and past prime either “Delete for everyone” oregon “Delete for me.”

Yet earlier you spell disconnected connected a deleting spree, beryllium alert there’s a (slight) catch: each recipients indispensable beryllium updated to the astir caller mentation of WhatsApp successful bid for this to really enactment — and you won’t really person a notification if the connection didn’t delete.

Still, this could beryllium a useful caller diagnostic that whitethorn assistance WhatsApp summation a flimsy vantage implicit Apple’s iMessage instant connection service. Apple, aft all, inactive doesn’t connection this capableness and lone volition whenever the heck its caller iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems are released, possibly this fall.

For now, however, the iOS 16 beta lone gives users 2 minutes to propulsion the plug — and lone truthful agelong arsenic recipients person downloaded the beta mentation arsenic well. Which, let’s look it, isn’t thing you tin number on.