As earlier
announced that the “Unsend a message” feature will be coming to Facebook
for Android and iOS Soon without any particular
time frame of rollout.
But today, Facebook
Messenger announced the unsend message option will be rolling out in
batches according to a report from TechCrunch. The first countries to get the
feature are Bolivia, Colombia, Lithuania, and Poland.
If you live
in these cities, update your app and the Unsend message option should be
visible.
How Does it
Work?
Just like
what we have on the popular instant messenger WhatsApp, Facebook “Unsend
message” gives you the option to delete any message that you mistakenly sent,
you’ll have to tap and hold on the message and choose the “Remove for Everyone”
option.
You can
delete text, group chats, photos, videos, links and more — within 10 minutes of
sending. You can still delete any message on just your side of the conversation,
but only messages you sent can be removed from their recipients.
But
Facebook will hold on to that message for a little while just to be sure that
it can review it if it’s reported for harassment.
Facebook
believe that people who delete messages sent by mistake do it in less than a
minute, hence the 10 minute time window.
Other
countries should be expecting the roll out of the Unsend message feature in the
coming weeks.
