Facebook Rolls Out Unsend Option To All Messenger Users

You’ve likely sent a Facebook message or two and then wished, almost immediately, that you hadn’t.

In the long-awaited answer to many Messenger users’ prayers, Facebook announced today that it is launching an ‘unsend’ feature.

This will give you up to 10 minutes to retract a message after it’s been sent, even in a group chat.

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Users can access the feature by tapping and holding down on a message in a conversation. A ‘tombstone,’ or a line of text confirming the message was deleted, will then appear in the chat

The initial move came seven months after it was reported that Facebook was deleting messages already sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg to other users.

Now, finally, the feature is rolling out to all iOS and Android Messenger users.

By setting the unsend cutoff at 10 minutes, it means you can’t delete messages that were sent long ago in a conversation.

But it does let you erase any messages that may have typos, were sent to the wrong person or that you may regret after-the-fact.

When a message is deleted, it’ll show a marker in the chat telling other users that it’s been removed.

Source: Dailymail