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- You can now set the WhatsApp disappearing messages feature as your permanent default.
- Messages will auto-delete after 24 hours, seven days, or 90 days.
- This only works in one-on-one chats and your chat partner will be notified of the feature.
Last year, WhatsApp introduced a new privacy-centric feature that allowed you to make your messages disappear. For it to work, though, you needed to manually activate the feature within all your chats.
Today, however, WhatsApp disappearing messages can now be set as the permanent default for all your one-on-one chats. That means every time you start a new chat, your messages will auto-delete after a set period of time without you needing to think about it. Unfortunately, this does not work for existing chats. They will need to be manually deleted.