Inside your iPhone’s NEW iMessage trick that will make you quit WhatsApp

APPLE says you'll soon be able to unsend and edit iMessages – but how does it work?

This genius feature is coming later this year with a new iPhone update.

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confirmed the feature yesterday during its WWDC 2022 event.

The ability to unsend and edit iMessages will be added as part of iOS 16.

Rival chat app WhatsApp already has an unsend feature – but there's currently no function to edit texts.

Now The Sun can reveal exactly how Apple's new iOS feature works.

Not all iMessages can be tweaked or deleted: there's a time limit.

You only have 15 minutes to make any changes to a text before the option runs out.

And don't think you can do it silently either.

Just like on WhatsApp, if a text has been "unsent" then a note will appear for both the sender and recipient.

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This will stop any confusion once a text has vanished.

Similarly, there will be a notifier if a text has been edited too.

However it won't be possible to see exactly what changes have been made – unless you had previously seen the message and remembered what it said.

Also important is that both the sender and recipient will need to be on iOS 16 for the feature to work.

So even if you have iOS 16, you won't be able to unsend or edit a text for a person who hasn't yet upgraded.

You'll receive a warning that some people won't see your edits if this is the case.

For the feature to work, everyone needs to be running iOS 16.

Apple is currently letting app makers test iOS 16 right now in the developer beta.

And a public beta for Apple fans is expected to go live next month.

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If you want to wait for the general release, you can likely expect iOS 16 to go live in September.

This will almost certainly fall alongside the launch of the long-awaited iPhone 14.

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