The Snapchat application is one of the few that has tried to stay true to its principles or at least some of its features have not been modified since it was launched a few years ago. Snapchat was born as the ephemeral social network in which privacy coexisted with spontaneity and living in the moment. This for example prevented sent messages from being deleted or corrected, but times have changed and Snapchat is doomed to update and add new features if you want to survive in such a competitive sector.
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This has led the application of the ghost to introduce a new function through which we will be able to delete messages sent through chat. Until now, messages sent and received could be read within the first 24 hours in which they were sent or received. However, the user sending a message could NOT delete the message once it has been sent ..
Most applications and social platforms that allow you to send and receive messages have been incorporating the possibility of deleting messages sent in recent years. This has made Snapchat, which is in a period of brutal user loss, decided to introduce this feature and not fall behind in this trend.
The option to delete messages sent in SnapChat Chats will be very useful for the moments when you regret or make mistakes in the message sent or person who receives it..
Having said this, we want to show you step by step how to delete messages sent on Snapchat :
How to delete messages in Snapchat chats. (iOS and Android)
The first thing you should do, obviously, is the update of the SnapChat application on both your Android and iOS device since this function is only available in the latest version of the app.
When your app is updated, all you have to do is access Snapchat and go to the Chats section. Access any of your conversations for line followed by writing and sending a message. When this message has been sent, you only have to press and hold on the message you want to delete..
This will automatically display a menu with three options from which you must click on delete. This will cause a window to be shown explaining what the delete chat option consists of: “When you delete a message, we will try to delete it from our servers and from your friends' devices. This may not always work, for example if someone does not have a good Internet connection, or has an old version of Snapchat. "
After clicking on the OK button, a new window will be displayed in which you will have to confirm the deletion of the message by clicking on the Delete button and that's it, now the message will be removed from the Snapchat chat. There are two options here: 1) if the user who receives the message has not yet read it, when he accesses the chat he will see a message warning him that a message has been deleted but he will not be able to read the original text of the message and 2) if You delete the message after it has been opened by the receiver, obviously this will have already been able to read your message but from the moment you delete it, it will not be able to access the content of that message again.
Without a doubt this function is ideal for those users who continue communicating through Snapchat, since you can eliminate erroneous messages or that you regret having sent.
