
So, if you were absent-minded or just typed very quickly when composing a WhatsApp message and made a mistake, be quick about fixing it. Or you’ve posted on your feed instead of sending it as a direct message. Maybe you’ve pressed “reply all” instead of “reply” to an email, and then proceed to say something you probably shouldn’t have said. Type with CautionĮveryone has made this mistake before, in one form or another. This basically means that any photos you send in the app could be stored permanently on someone else’s phone and you have no options other than politely asking to get them back.Įven if you delete the message immediately, the phone may have recognized and downloaded the image. If you needed any more reasons to be wary when sending photos, here is another one the iOS version of WhatsApp will automatically store received photos in the phone’s native gallery app. I deleted a photo, but the recipient still has it. If not, there really isn’t a way to recall it from the recipient’s devices. If the message appears, you can delete it. Select ‘yes’ and proceed through the setup process. WhatsApp should ask you if you want to restore all of your messages. You can try to uninstall the app from your phone then redownload it. Unfortunately, it is incredibly difficult to retrieve a message you’ve deleted so that you can delete it again for everyone. I accidentally deleted a message for me rather than everyone. If you permanently delete your account your sent messages remain on the other user’s app. Unfortunately, this same principle applies to deleting your account.

The only thing that will change if you block a contact is they will no longer be able to see your profile nor will they be able to message or call you. The person will see that there was a message and that it was deleted. The inconvenient part of this process is that some clues of what happened stay behind.

