WhatsApp has decided to change the way it treats our multimedia files that we share in the application.
Until now, the videos or photos you sent through the messaging app were stored on your server for 30 days.
We will have the option to rescue deleted videos and photos from WhatsApp
As we explained, until now the multimedia files were kept for 30 days.
After this time they were deleted forever.
Also, until now if the recipient successfully downloaded the file, it was immediately removed from the server.
Well, it seems that soon this expiration time will increase indefinitely, radically changing the policy of WhatsApp.
Now we can rescue videos and photos deleted from WhatsApp because they will be stored forever.
And not only videos and photos, but any type of media that we send through the application: GIFs, audios, documents
Everything has its positive and negative part
As we told you, WhatsApp will indefinitely save all the files that we send through its application on its servers.
So that we can rescue videos and photos deleted from WhatsApp by mistake and that we wish we had.
According to Wabetainfo they have tested it and you can rescue videos and photos from WhatsApp for a short period (2-3 months).
But in older files (1 year) the application asks you to tell the sender to resend it.
It seems that this works if we haven't deleted the message from WhatsApp, otherwise it won't be possible to recover it.
This feature is now available on Android. But we don't know if it will come to iOS.
Well, it seems that the directory where WhatsApp saves the files is not as accessible as on Android.
For now we have to wait.
So, what's the downside?
After all the Zuckererg scandal, many users are not particularly excited that their servers keep their files indefinitely.
But we shouldn't worry, because we remember that all the messages and content of WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted.
And you, would you like to have this function in iOS?
