WhatsApp is including photograph messages to its app. Called “view once” pictures, the brand new function permits customers to ship pictures and movies in chats that may solely be considered a single time earlier than disappearing.

The Snapchat-like function is much like Instagram and Messenger’s disappearing photograph . When snapping an image in WhatsApp, customers can choose the timer icon to set the photograph to “view once.” Unlike common photograph or video messages, the “view once” photographs received’t preview within the chat and may’t be downloaded to your gadget.

Facebook is billing the function as one for “private moments” or for sending doubtlessly delicate info like Wi-Fi passwords. As all the time, individuals needs to be cautious of simply how “private” these sorts of messages actually are. In a , the corporate notes that the recipient can nonetheless take a screenshot or file their display whereas opening a “view once” photograph and, not like Snapchat, WhatsApp received’t let the sender know when a screenshot has been taken. The firm additionally factors out that “view once” pictures which can be reported might be made seen to WhatsApp.