While shooting photos and videos with our phones has become a huge part of our lives, not everything we share needs to be saved as a digital record. Simply taking a photo on many phones means it will take up space in your camera roll indefinitely.
That’s why WhatsApp has introduced new View Once photographs and videos, which vanish from the chat once they’ve been opened, offering users, even more, privacy control.
You may send a View Once photo of some new items you’re trying on in a store, a brief reaction to a moment in time, or something crucial like a Wi-Fi password, for example.
About view once For added privacy, you can now send photos and videos that disappear from your WhatsApp chat after the recipient has opened them once. Media will not be saved to the recipient’s Photos or Gallery. Once you send a view once photo or video, you won’t be able to view it again. You can’t forward, save, star, or share photos or videos that were sent or received with view once media is enabled. You can only see if a recipient has opened a view once photo or video if they have read receipts turned on. If you don’t open the photo or video within 14 days of it being sent, the media will expire from the chat. You must select view once media each time you want to send a view once photo or video. View once media can be restored from backup if the message is unopened at the time of back up. If the photo or video has already been opened, the media will not be included in the backup and can’t be restored.
For added privacy, you can now send photos and videos that disappear from your WhatsApp chat after the recipient has opened them once.
View Once media, like all of your personal messages on WhatsApp, is protected by end-to-end encryption, which means WhatsApp won’t be able to see it. They’ll also be identified by a new “one-time” icon.
To avoid any confusion about what was going on in the discussion at the time, the message will appear as “opened” after the media has been viewed.
Starting this week, WhatsApp will release out the feature to everyone, and the company is eager to hear your thoughts on this new way to transmit private and disappearing files.
