Currently when you send a message via Facebook Messenger you can tap and hold the message to access a Delete option, and it will be removed from your conversation thread (as shown below). Except what you can’t see is that this message has only been deleted for you, and your recipient can still read it. This is signalled by the term ‘your copy of the message’.
Hope is coming, however. Twitter user @wongmjane has spotted an in-beta Unsend feature, similar to that found on WhatsApp. This new feature, which has not yet rolled out to all users, will give you the option to delete for everyone. We’ll update this story when we have confirmation of the upcoming feature from Facebook. Marie is Editor in Chief of Tech Advisor and Macworld. A Journalism graduate from the London College of Printing, she’s worked in tech media for more than 17 years, managing our English language, French and Spanish consumer editorial teams and leading on content strategy through Foundry’s transition from print, to digital, to online - and beyond.
