WhatsApp and Instagram towards timed messages: here are the first clues

It seems that Facebook you are throwing yourself openly on the topic of ephemeral content or that you are "Self-destruct". Recently, the images of a beta version of Whatsapp where you can see the possibility of indicating a "timer" for messages so that they can automatically cancel themselves in private chats after a certain period of time.

From the screenshots circulated by WABetainfo you see a screen that allows the user to set an hour, a day, a week or a year as the life time of the message. Spent the period of time the message will be automatically deleted to leave no trace.

Now there are other rumors about the other Facebook property, Instagram: the clues were discovered by the developer Jane Manchun Wong, who with a reverse engineering process managed to identify some interesting elements in the app code.

Apparently the functionality is still in embryonic form, but it seems that it is possible enter a sort of "ephemeral mode" within the direct messages section: you write a message and when you leave the window the message disappears. It seems an implementation a bit too extreme, but as mentioned it would be a feature still in its primitive state. Instagram has however confirmed that the function is being tested.

Everything is obviously part of the strategy indicated by Mark Zuckerberg last year to make messaging "more private" together with the promise that all messages on the company's various platforms will someday be end-to-end encrypted. We are not at this point yet – only Whatsapp has this level of encryption – but in the meantime the deletion of messages seems a good way to try to keep some information private.

In the past few weeks too Twitter interested in "ephemeral" messages with Fleets, we talked about it in this news: Twitter as Instagram will have its '' Stories ''. Here's Fleets: the name is all a program.