{"id":998926,"date":"2026-03-23T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998926"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:06:40","slug":"whatsapp-could-soon-add-a-feature-that-auto-deletes-messages-within-15-minutes-heres-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/23\/whatsapp-could-soon-add-a-feature-that-auto-deletes-messages-within-15-minutes-heres-how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp could soon add a feature that auto-deletes messages within 15 minutes: here&#8217;s how it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is working on a major privacy upgrade for its disappearing messages feature, which could allow users to automatically delete a new message shortly after they have read it. The new feature, called &#8220;After reading&#8221;, was spotted by WABetaInfo in the latest beta build of the app and could be coming to the Meta-owned personal messaging app soon.<\/p>\n<p>What is the new &#8216;After reading&#8217; timer?<br \/>\nWhatsApp currently allows users to turn on disappearing message timers of 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days, which means that any messages sent to the recipient will disappear within that time frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is working on a major privacy upgrade for its disappearing messages feature, which could allow users to automatically delete a new message shortly after they have read it. The new feature, called &#8220;After reading&#8221;, was spotted by WABetaInfo in the latest beta build of the app and could be coming to the Meta-owned personal messaging app soon. What is the new &#8216;After reading&#8217; timer? WhatsApp currently allows users to turn on disappearing message timers of 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days, which means that any messages sent to the recipient will disappear within that time frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}