Google Messages is officially rolling out its long-awaited ‘Delete for everyone’ option, but it comes with a slight catch

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Messages is officially rolling out its long-awaited ‘Delete for everyone’ option, but it comes with a slight catch

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  Messages has started rolling out its ‘Delete for everyone’ feature
• It was first spotted in February, and now users are starting to gain access to the long-awaited messaging function
• The feature is being rolled out slowly, but users have noticed some setbacks

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Embarrassing texts are the worst, we’ve all been there, but

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has plans to crush that feeling and is starting to roll out a ‘Delete for everyone’ option in

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Messages for Android – just a few months after initial rumors.

The new unsend function will soon have two different options, the first being ‘Delete for me’, which is already part of

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Messages’ ecosystem, and the second being its upcoming ‘Delete for everyone’ button that, as its name suggests, will remove messages from the view of other contacts.

A handful of users have started to notice the new ‘Delete for everyone’ option in

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Messages already, but not everyone has it yet, implying that it’s being rolled out gradually. One user with access posted a screenshot to

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showing what the new function will look like once it’s rolled out widely.

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We first heard of

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’s plans to introduce an unsend button back in February when Android Authority shared an APK teardown, and the site’s writers managed to get it working in March. A feature like this has been a long time coming for

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Messages, but even when it does roll out it’ll come with some slight drawbacks.

So far, ‘Delete for everyone’ is limited to large group chats

When it comes to unsending texts,

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Messages is behind the likes of WhatsApp and iMessage, which have offered the ability to delete messages for everyone in a chat for quite some time. It’s good to see that

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is catching up, but there are still two catches you should note.

As discussed in our previous reports, it’s likely that

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will stick with its 15-minute window for its ‘Delete for everyone’ feature, meaning that if you want to remove a text from a conversation, you’ll have to act rather swiftly. But that’s not the only issue that users have noticed.

Although the

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post above gives an insight to how

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Messages’ new unsend feature will look, the user also draws our attention to the feature only being accessible in larger group chats. For them, ‘Delete for everyone’ only works in a group chat with 12 members, and they have yet to find a 1:1 chat that allows them to delete messages for everyone.

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As it stands this new function has a lot of limitations, but because it’s only in the very early stages of roll out we’re hoping that

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will amend these once it’s widely available to all

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Messages users.

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