X, the social community owned by Elon Musk, is lastly rolling out one of the vital sought-after options for direct messages: the power to edit the message.
Over the weekend, X made the edit message function accessible to iOS customers. One of the engineers on the firm posted concerning the roll-out and mentioned the edit messages operate will probably be accessible on extra platforms quickly.
Here is how you should utilize it:
- Open any direct message chat out of your X iOS app.
- Long press on any message that you simply despatched or faucet on the three-dot menu beside the message.
- Select the “Edit message” choice to switch the despatched message.
According to a assist web page, there is no such thing as a time restrict for enhancing the messages. In our testing, we discovered that you may additionally edit older DMs on the platform too. However, you possibly can solely make 5 edits total to a message. The social community applies the identical restrict on enhancing posts as properly.
While X mentioned that it retains a log of edited messages for safety causes, it doesn’t present the model historical past of edited messages for the time being.
Users anticipate to have the ability to edit their messages in messaging apps, as different chat apps, comparable to WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Messenger have had this performance for some time now. Apple additionally added the power to edit messages despatched by way of iMessage with iOS 16.
