{"id":5353,"date":"2018-03-14T09:37:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T09:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2018-03-14T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T09:37:56","slug":"whatsapp-adds-feature-check-delete-everyone-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2018\/03\/14\/whatsapp-adds-feature-check-delete-everyone-misuse\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp adds feature to check \u2018Delete for Everyone\u2019 misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is testing a new feature called \u201cblock revoke request\u201d to prevent people from misusing the \u201cDelete for Everyone\u201d feature.<!--more-->According to WABetaInfo, a fan site that tests new WhatsApp features early, in order to stop such bad users, the messaging platform has implemented the new feature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new WhatsApp for iOS update (2.18.31) is available on Apple AppStore. It is a bug fixes update but it has the new \u2018Delete for everyone\u2019 limit, that is one hour, eight minutes and 16 seconds,\u201d read the information on the website on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the user deletes a message for everyone, WhatsApp sends to the recipient(s) a new message having the same ID of the message that the user wants to revoke,\u201d the post added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, when a recipient received this particular message containing the revoke request, WhatsApp checked if the ID of the message was present in the database and if the original message was found, it directly deleted it without checking any other important information.<\/p>\n<p>The platform has decided to choose 24 hours as time reference because a user can delete a message for everyone and the recipient\u2019s phone might be turned off at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n<p>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is testing a new feature called \u201cblock revoke request\u201d to prevent people from misusing the \u201cDelete for Everyone\u201d feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}