Good News! Facebook Messenger Now Has An ‘unsend’ Feature

Messages sent on Facebook can now be unsent

Islamabad (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 7th February, 2019) In a long wanted feature, Facebook Messenger now allows user to delete their messages.

The messages can be unsent only up to 10 minutes after they have been sent.

Facebook said that the new feature is designed for anyone who has "accidentally sent a message to the wrong group of friends, mistyped something, or simply wanted to a message in a chat”.

This "unsend" feature was first teased back in April 2018, and additional details were spotted in the release notes for a Messenger app update in November. Now, it's available for all users.

Facebook's initial announcement about this feature was made after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly removed his old messages from recipients' inboxes without their knowledge.

Facebook claimed it had deleted the messages for security reasons in the wake of the 2014 hack of Sony executives' emails.

The ‘unsend’ feature was long due considering that similar features have long existed on Facebook-owned apps WhatsApp and Instagram.

WhatsApp added an ‘unsend’ feature in 2017 for messages up to an hour after they've been sent, and Instagram has allowed for users to remove messages ever since direct messaging was added to the app in 2013.