Whatsapp is one of the most used IM apps
around the world right now with a user base of over one billion. This
app is available in Android, iOS, Windows platform and also accessible
from desktop computers. Since the launch of this app, it has gone
through some serious changes from just messaging to sharing temporary
stories for 24 hours.
Among the slew of updates, Whatsapp has
rolled out an update recently, that helps the users to delete the
messages for both sender and receiver if sent wrongly.
Initially, the above-mentioned feature
allows users to delete the sent messages within 7 minutes. However,
there seems to be a bug in it, which lets the user delete it after the
specific time frame — 7 minutes. The bug allows a user to delete the
sent messages for up to a maximum of seven days. In order to do that,
follow the below steps
How to control storage space used by WhatsApp on Android
Step 1: First off, turn off Internet connection be it your WiFi or Mobile data on your smartphone and head on to settings panel.
Step 2: Now tap on Apps -> Whatsapp -> tap on Force Stop
Step 3: Once you are over with it, go to the settings again and disable the automatic Date & time update.
Step 4: Now change both date and time on
your smartphone to the time, when you sent the sent the message. If you
are not sure about it, you can scroll the chat till it shows you the
date and time on it.
Step 5: Once done, you can delete the
message by holding on to the message for few seconds, where you will see
two options ‘Delete For Me’ and ‘Delete For Everyone’. If you want to
delete for the sender you can do it tapping on it or else tap on the
first option. Once done, change the time and date back to normal.