X, the social community owned by Elon Musk, is lastly rolling out probably the most sought-after options for direct messages: the power to edit the message.
Over the weekend, X made the edit message characteristic obtainable to iOS customers. One of many engineers on the firm posted concerning the roll-out and stated the edit messages operate can be obtainable on extra platforms quickly.
Right here is how you should utilize it:
- Open any direct message chat out of your X iOS app.
- Lengthy press on any message that you just despatched or faucet on the three-dot menu beside the message.
- Choose the “Edit message” choice to switch the despatched message.
In line with a assist web page, there isn’t a time restrict for modifying the messages. In our testing, we came upon you can additionally edit older DMs on the platform too. Nonetheless, you possibly can solely make 5 edits total to a message. The social community applies the identical restrict on modifying posts as properly.
Whereas X stated that it retains a log of edited messages for safety causes, it doesn’t present the model historical past of edited messages in the mean time.
Customers anticipate to have the ability to edit their messages in messaging apps, as different chat apps, equivalent to WhatsApp, Telegram, Sign, and Messenger have had this performance for some time now. Apple additionally added the power to edit messages despatched through iMessage with iOS 16.