Today, WhatsApp officially unveiled its latest feature, and it’s a departure from the Disappearing Messages feature that was first introduced in 2020. It’s called Keep in Chat, and it basically lets you hang on to messages as you need them in place. followed, although they are of the endangered type.
The way it works is, once you decide to keep a specific disappearing article, the sender is notified and given the option to veto. Once the sender says a message can’t be kept, that decision is final and no one else can keep it. The message will inevitably be deleted when the timer expires.
This is an interesting way to allow some disappearing messages to be saved without making the whole concept completely useless. It’s not likely to get a huge amount of usage, or rather, a huge amount of sender approvals, otherwise why wouldn’t they just send normal messages? — but it’s still definitely in the “nice to have” category.
Saved messages will be marked with a bookmark icon and will be available, organized by chat, in the Preserved messages folder. The Keep in Chat feature will roll out globally to all users “in the coming weeks,” WhatsApp says.
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