WhatsApp says it is rolling out a new option that makes disappearing messages the default behavior for all new chats on the end-to-end encrypted messaging platform. It's been over a year since ...

For some time now, WhatsApp users have had disappearing messages at their disposal. These do what they say on the tin, making chats disappear after a set amount of time to erase the record of ...

WhatsApp announced today that it had expanded the privacy control features with the addition of default disappearing messages for all newly initiated chats. "When enabled, all new one-on-one chats you ...

You can now turn on disappearing messages by default and pick whether you want a message to fade after one, seven or 90 days. Alexandra is an associate editor on CNET's Performance Optimization team.