WhatsApp may eventually allow users to choose from more than a dozen durations for disappearing messages. An updated version of this feature got spotted in the WhatsApp desktop beta client, but more durations are also in development for the mobile app.
As of this writing, WhatsApp users can choose from three durations for disappearing messages. They are 24 hours or 7 and 90 days, with no other options in-between, which arguably doesn't give a lot of room for WhatsApp users to customize these privacy parameters.
However, as spotted by WaBetaInfo on a beta build for the WhatsApp desktop app for Windows OS, Meta is now working on adding 12 more durations for disappearing messages. The WhatsApp desktop app was released last year and is fully compatible with the Samsung Galaxy Book laptop lineup.
A dozen more ways to control WhatsApp privacy
This beta version of the WhatsApp desktop app offers a dozen more durations for disappearing messages alongside the existing ones. They include 1, 3, 6, and 12 hours; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 21, 30, 60, 180 days, and one full year.
In total, this beta update offers no fewer than 15 durations for disappearing messages, which should put a lot more control over privacy in the hands of WhatsApp users.
Nobody knows when this new beta feature might go live on public WhatsApp builds. But at least in theory, whenever these additional durations for disappearing messages will be released, they should go live for both desktop and mobile at roughly the same time.
