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A new WhatsApp update was announced on Friday, allowing users to keep disappearing messages, but only if the person who sent it consents.
The disappearing message feature was introduced in 2020 and offered users the option of keeping chats clean and organised without the need to delete messages manually.
But now, the messaging platform's new "Keep in Chat" feature allows users to keep "occasional voice notes or [a] key piece of information", even if the sender has disappearing messages set up.
"To make this work, the sender will be notified when someone keeps a message, and the sender will have the ability to veto the decision," the messaging platform said in a blogpost.
"If you've decided your message can't be kept by others, your decision is final, no one else can keep it and the message will be deleted when the timer expires."
The messages you keep will be archived in a "Kept Messages" folder on your app.
The new feature is set to roll out globally over the next few weeks.
