The slow but constant development of WhatsApp continues, a path made up of macro changes added to secondary refinements, but still useful for improving the user experience. After the privacy news, the developers are committed to giving group administrators a new power: the ability to delete the messages of each member of the group – simple user or another administrator – with the Delete for all option.
Deleted messages will be replaced by a statement confirming the removal by an administrator. These figures will thus be able to increasingly assume the role of moderators of the conversation, also intervening to obscure inappropriate messages. The novelty we are talking about was spotted in version 2.22.1.1 by the colleagues of WaBetaInfo.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the message This was removed by an admin appears in correspondence with the removed messages. At the moment the administrator removes a message from another group member-only deletes it from the chat visible to the same administrator – therefore only with the “Delete for me” option – but the other participants can continue reading it.
However, it is difficult to predict release times, as always happens in the case of WhatsApp functions spotted in one of the beta versions but not yet active. A future update is expected to give administrators more moderation powers.
WHAT’S NEW IN THE VERSION 2.22.1.17
WhatsApp is still working to perfect the functionality: now, with the new version 2.22.1.17, the name of the admin who deleted the message is displayed. As can be seen from the screen shared by WABetaInfo, if the group administrator has carried out the operation, the words: This has been deleted by an admin, [name admin] will appear.
WhatsApp, therefore, demonstrates that it is currently focused on this new feature which, seeing the developments underway, we believe is not too far from being released on the beta channel.