It turns out WhatsApp‘s ‘Delete for Everyone’ feature — designed to let you wipe texts and files you sent by accident — could still leave traces of your messages, due to a discrepancy in the way the function works on Android handsets and iPhones.

Researcher Shitesh Sachan noticed that even after purging messages, media files sent to iPhone users in group chats (who have enabled the ‘Save to Camera Roll’ setting) will remain on the device.

To clarify, although deleted messages containing media files won’t be visible in WhatsApp, the files will still be available to iPhone users with ‘Save to Camera Roll’ enabled.

By contrast, the feature works differently on WhatsApp for Android. Once a user has used ‘Delete for Everyone,’ media files saved to Android recipient’s photo gallery also get wiped.

The difference between the platforms could give a false sense of privacy to Android users unfamiliar with the way the feature works on iOS devices.

When the researcher contacted WhatsApp about the flaw, a company spokesperson suggested the feature offers no guarantee that media files will be properly purged from devices’ storage.

“The functionality provided via ‘Delete for Everyone’ is intended to delete the message and there is no guarantee that the media (or message) will be permanently deleted —the implementation focuses around the message presence in WhatsApp,” a spokesperson told the researcher, The Hacker News reports.

For the record, WhatsApp is not the only messenger that has suffered from this issue.

A researcher recently discovered Telegram kept images from deleted files in recipients’ phone storage, but the company has since released an update that fixes the bug. From the looks of it, though, WhatsApp has no immediate plans to address the issue.

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Hmmm!


Lesson here is be careful with ya phone so you don't send what can ruin your reputation either by mistake or intentionally.

I don’t get it

Hmm

Timileyin1234:
I don’t get it

If you send me a picture/video, once I download the picture/video it goes to “Camera roll” (gallery). Even if you use the “delete for everyone” feature on WhatsApp. I would still have pictures/video you sent in my “Camera roll” (gallery).

Harddiskng:


If you send me a picture/video, once I download the picture/video it goes to “Camera roll” (gallery). Even if you use the “delete for everyone” feature on WhatsApp. I would still have pictures/video you sent in my “Camera roll” (gallery).

That means android no secure be that, since it can automatically delete revoked photos in android gallery. iPhone doesn’t give them permission to automatically delete. Now I get it

That delete feature is even silly sef

How can I delete a message and still gossip on how the message was deleted.

Hahaha this news isn’t great for people that like sending prik and boby pix upandan anyhow

Also not good news for NL scammers too

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Timileyin1234:

That means android no secure be that, since it can automatically delete revoked photos in android gallery. iPhone doesn’t give them permission to automatically delete. Now I get it

[/s] You were trying to sound intelligent but you ended up spewing bullshit.

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kemicalreaction:
[s][/s] You were trying to sound intelligent but you ended up spewing bullshit.

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kemicalreaction:
[s][/s] You were trying to sound intelligent but you ended up spewing bullshit.

Dem swear for u? Why u dey tale me?

Timileyin1234:

That means android no secure be that, since it can automatically delete revoked photos in android gallery. iPhone doesn’t give them permission to automatically delete. Now I get it

I won’t say android is not secure since you have given WhatsApp the permission to revoke pictures from your gallery (it’s doing what it’s meant to do) but you do have a point.

This kind of restrictions make hacking an iPhone much more harder.

Timileyin1234:

Dem swear for u? Why u dey tale me?

I no dey tail you bro.

I don't just agree with some of your posts which happen to be in my active sections

No vex

Timileyin1234:

Dem swear for u? Why u dey tale me?

kemicalreaction:
I no dey tail you bro.

I don't just agree with some of your posts which happen to be in my active sections

No vex

i think d thing is that android create a separate folder for each app installed on android phone so any data saved inside d whatsapp folder can b revoked unlike iphone that doesn’t, even if it does u can’t have access to the folder ,

Lol . How’s this news?
I always laugh whenever people do the delete for everyone thing after sending me pictures and I’ve downloaded it.
Android users don’t know what’s going on

Sukueponmalu:
Lol . How’s this news?
I always laugh whenever people do the delete for everyone thing after sending me pictures and I’ve downloaded it.
Android users don’t know what’s going on

U wan cause trouble abi, cos u no say this go pain them

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Sukueponmalu:
Lol . How’s this news?
I always laugh whenever people do the delete for everyone thing after sending me pictures and I’ve downloaded it.
Android users don’t know what’s going on

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Sukueponmalu:
Lol . How’s this news?
I always laugh whenever people do the delete for everyone thing after sending me pictures and I’ve downloaded it.
Android users don’t know what’s going on

GBWhatsapp be looking at you like

Nah there problem

Ok

I prefer strawberries, i hate apples........

Okay

Why are u reporting to us. Hope you never send nudes.

Sorry. I'm just messing with you.

Harddiskng:


If you send me a picture/video, once I download the picture/video it goes to “Camera roll” (gallery). Even if you use the “delete for everyone” feature on WhatsApp. I would still have pictures/video you sent in my “Camera roll” (gallery).

That means u set your auto download

Ok

Ok













Selling cheap and super neat laptops is what I do.

Details on signature.

My family and girl are the only ones I activated save to camera feature for. Infact I did not leave my setting to auto download images. I dont need all those whatsapp images filling up my camera roll

Lol