WhatsApp: Your group admin will soon be able to delete any messages – Here is how!

WhatsApp update: Meta-owned popular messaging platform WhatsApp is planning release a new feature soon that will allow group admins the ability to delete messages for everyone. This feature is already available for beta testers as well. 

According to WABetaInfo, a website that tracks WhatsApp, the platform is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.22.17.12 and that will let group admins delete any message for everyone. If you are a group admin and you try to delete an incoming message and you see the option “delete for everyone”, it means the feature is available.

When you delete a message for everyone, sent by another group participant, other people can always see that you have deleted that message since your name shows up within the chat bubble. This is possible for group admins so they can moderate their WhatsApp groups better. The feature has been spotted last year.

Recently, the platform banned more than 22 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of June in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021. It banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in the country in May. The messaging platform also received 632 grievance reports in June within the country, and the accounts “actioned” were 64.

WhatsApp is an industry leader in preventing abuse, among end-to-end encrypted messaging services. Over the years, we have consistently invested in Artificial Intelligence and other state-of-the-art technology, data scientists and experts, and in processes, in order to keep our users safe on our platform,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.

Published in accordance with Rule 4(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, the report contained information on actions taken by WhatsApp in response to grievances received from users in India.