Facebook had promised to bring the message unsend feature following the fiasco with the retraction of Mark Zuckerberg's messages from its recipients' inbox, which act was criticized by users as utterly lacking merit as it portends lack of trust.
The feature has been spotted in the “coming soon” section of release notes for Messenger version 191.0 for iPhone, which have also been confirmed in testing since last month.
The company plans to roll out the “unsend” feature to its messaging service, and perhaps present the incidence as mere testing, as it vows that no such messages from its executives will be deleted again, until the feature has been extended to all users on the social network.
Albeit, it remains unclear at the moment if the feature will work for both mobile and desktop platforms, as Facebook have been concerned in offering the same messaging experience across all platforms.
According to the release notes, the Messenger unsend feature will only allow you to unsend a message from up to 10 minutes after you send it, which is quite unlike the case with WhatsApp, whereby you are given up to one hour to delete mistaken messages.
It is also expected that eventually users will be able to set an expiration time for messages, after which time they’d automatically be deleted from the recipient’s inbox.
But there is no timeline if or when the second capability will be coming, but at least having the additional feature isn't asking too much, after all Facebook demonstrated that it's possible with messages sent by top executives, as well as those sent by Mark Zuckerberg, getting deleted from the inboxes of the recipients.
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