With his latest update, WhatsApp introduced the possibility of deleting a message within 7 minutes of his sending if he has not yet been read by the recipient.In that case, whoever receives it will see in the chat window only the wording this message has been deleted, without being able to read the text.Or at least this was in the intentions of the company.
In fact, some smonetts have discovered that the sudden cancellation can be circumvented by spying on the one that the sender had written, simply using an app present on the Play Store.In reality, anything that contains all the latest notifications received on the mobile phone is enough, a kind of reminder on calls, text messages, emails and chat of the last few hours, to which it has responded or not.
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And now Whatsapp makes you delete the messages sent by mistake.Here's how to do
Among the many software there is, for example, Notification History, however free of free on the digital shop of Android and without any risk of safety (for now at least).Once installed, just open it to access the notification chronology, in log log.
How to do
Well, the conversations eliminated before reading are also displayed inside the list, because they still produced a warning on the smartphone, albeit not highlighted by Numerini and badges on the Whatsapp app.By opening a box that refers to the deleted message, among the various technical lines there is one preceded by the suffix Text, which contains the phrase removed before the double check has become blue.Here anyone can read the text even if in itself the application does not show it because it is canceled.
WHERE WORKS
The clever is a very serious security flaw, given that it places evident privacy risks both in the event that the smartphone falls into the wrong hands and for remote entry of hacker via viruses and malware.Maybe that deleted message did not contain any secret but what would happen if instead a friend or a family member had sent us the password of the Wi-Fi of the house or that of the favorite social network and even the bank's portal?They look like situations always distant from us but it is not so.
How to find out if you are protected
Fortunately, the problem seems to concern only the dated Android mobile phones, those with an operating system from version 5 down.Neither the Nougat (Android 7) nor the Marshmallow (Android 6) are violated in this way.
To check if your smartphone is protected you can very well try the method firsthand, it takes 5 minutes.Download Notification History, send and immediately delete a message from a contact, without reading it of course, and then open the app.If the item with the non -read notification shows, at the Text line, the clear text then it is better to update the system or move on to a model that supports at least Android 6, if instead you see this message has also been deleted in there then you are affixed.Until the next bug.