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News India Live, Digital Desk: The world’s most popular messaging platform WhatsApp has prepared to introduce a new and extremely secure feature to further strengthen the privacy of its users. This new feature has been named ‘After Reading’. Its biggest feature is that as soon as the receiver reads your message, exactly 15 minutes later, that message will disappear forever from the chat history of both sides. This feature will prove to be a ‘game changer’ for those who frequently share OTP, password or other confidential information. How will this 15-minute auto-delete timer work? Till now, WhatsApp had 24 hours, 7 days and 90 days options for ‘disappearing messages’, but the new ‘After Reading’ feature is more strict and faster: Countdown starts: As soon as the recipient opens and reads the message, WhatsApp will start a 15-minute ‘countdown’. 24-hour deadline: If the recipient does not read the message, the message will automatically expire 24 hours after it is sent and will be deleted for security purposes. Clearness on both ends: Once the 15 minutes are up, the message will be deleted from both the sender and receiver’s phones. When the blue tick (Read Receipts) is turned off Will also work: Often for privacy, many users keep their ‘blue tick’ closed, due to which it is not known whether the message has been read or not. But this new system of WhatsApp is so smart that it will track in the background when the message has been opened. As soon as the message is opened, a 15-minute self-destruct timer will start, regardless of the receiver’s read-receipt settings. Like ‘View Once’ (for photos/videos), this feature will now add an extra layer of security for normal text messages as well. When will this new feature be available? Currently this feature has been spotted in WhatsApp Beta for Android (version 2.26.12.2). Right now it is in the development stage, which means the company is testing its nuances. Soon it can be rolled out globally first for beta testers and then for all Android and iOS users. You’ll be able to set this as the ‘default’ for a specific contact or for all chats by going to your chat settings.