whatsapp improve group security. The novelty made its appearance in the iOS beta of the messaging app: now group admins can also Delete messages sent by other members. This feature has been available in beta for Android for about a month.
The feature has the clear purpose of helping administrators to keep their groups free of phishing links or rude messages. We remind you that today WhatsApp groups can have one to a maximum of 512 participants and that maintaining netiquette is often very complicated. The new feature is not so much for small groups of friends or after school, but for larger groups where trolls, phishing links and so on are common.
This is an additional power, which contributes to the ability of members of the group in undesirable behaviour. Admins only need to press and hold the message they want to delete for a few seconds. At that point, they will find a new option that allows them to delete the message.
Before the cancellation, the app will send the administrator a pop-up asking them to confirm their decision. In short, accidentally deleting the posts of others will be very difficult. However, it is not possible to ‘secretly’ delete messages. All group members will be notified that one or more posts have been deleted.
Source: Lega Nerd
