WhatsApp has launched a brand new function that allows you to undo a majorly awkward transfer within the group chat. The widespread messaging app now permits you to undo the “Delete for Me” possibility incase you’ve by accident deleted a message for your self whenever you actually meant to delete it for everybody else.

The new function known as “accidental delete,” and permits you simply 5 seconds to reverse a sloppy “Delete for Me” button press, in accordance with WABetaInfo which tracks WhatsApp options. Instead, you possibly can delete the message for the entire chat whether or not it’s one-on-one or in a gaggle chat.

Let’s say you typed an embarrassing typo, and wish it erased from everybody’s reminiscence. In a rush to delete it, customers generally by accident click on on “Delete for Me” as a substitute of “Delete for Everyone.” Therefore, the message disappears from their view, however stays proper there for everybody else to ridicule.

The “accidental delete” function will now assist customers keep away from the disgrace that comes with messing up in a gaggle chat setting, permitting them a short window to undo their mistake. If customers didn’t imply to delete the message in any respect, the message can be retrieved with out having to delete it for anybody.

The function is now obtainable on WhatsApp for Android and iOS when you improve to the newest model of the app.

WhatsApp first launched the choice to delete messages from chats in 2017 to keep away from awkward mishaps in particular person or group chats. The app lately elevated the time obtainable to delete a message from 7 minutes to greater than two days, and now lets customers right the error of how they corrected their preliminary mistake all within the identify of seamless social interplay on-line.