WhatsApp rolled out the ability to send disappearing media and self-destructing messages for the purpose of user privacy and a little fun too. However, the privacy part isn’t entirely handled well as although the media in a chat is meant to vanish after a certain time, you can still save it to your smartphone. This will no longer be the case as WhatsApp is now testing a new feature to curb this. Here are the details.
A recent report by WABetaInfo reveals that WhatsApp is testing changes to media visibility on both Android and iOS, which will no longer auto-save media in disappearing chats to a smartphone.
So, if the disappearing messages feature is enabled, media that is of the vanishing nature, won’t get saved to your device. Although, one thing to note is that you will still be able to save the media manually. And if don’t want to do it manually, you can disable disappearing messages to get the auto-save enabled.
