WhatsApp working on edit message feature

A report by WABetaInfo suggests that WhatsApp might soon allow users to edit sent messages. It is still unclear as to how the feature might work, but likely WhatsApp will add an ‘edited’ label to the message, so the other person knows the message has been edited.

It is reportedly said that users might be able to edit messages for a certain time period. As part of the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.20.12 update, the edit message functionality is not available to beta testers right now.

It seems that the edit message feature is still under development. This new feature will give more options to the user for their sent message -- they can now decide to either delete the entire message and rewrite it or rectify the typo. A few months back, WhatsApp was working on the same feature, but suddenly dropped it without any explanation.

Recently, WhatsApp beta introduced a new feature that lets users sort messages by date and hide their online status. Earlier this month, a report also suggested that WhatsApp might stop working on older iPhones as early as October and has started alerting iOS 10 and iOS 11 users about the same.