Facebook Messenger Will Soon Let You "Unsend" Messages As Well, But Only Up To 10 Minutes After

It's easy to say embarrassing things in messenger apps, whether that's a bad grammatical error or sending a message to the wrong person. WhatsApp already allows you to erase these kinds of errors after you've sent them, and now Facebook will too.

Facebook Messenger yesterday announced a new feature it was bringing to its app. It'll allow you to "remove a message from a chat thread after it's been sent". Unfortunately, the tool will only let you correct a mistake within 10 minutes of sending the chat, after which it remains engraved in history.

Twitter user @MattNavarra spotted that the announcement in release notes for the 191.0 update of Messenger's iOS client. It's a little strange that the app only intends to allow 10 minutes to "unsend", whereas Facebook-owned WhatsApp give you an hour. Perhaps it's simply because Messenger is feeling the waters and will eventually widen that time window.

INTERESTING... Facebook Messenger¡®s long-awaited delete messages feature will only give you a 10 minute window to remove a message in a chat pic.twitter.com/ew1z2WPXbc

¡ª Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 7, 2018

Unfortunately, no word yet on when that feature will reach Android clients, but hopefully it won't be too long after iOS.