Message Deletion Privacy
The cluster discusses concerns about retaining chat message history, the effectiveness of deletion features in messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, and whether deleted messages are truly removed from servers or recipients' devices.
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Exactly. Keeping message history is a liability. There is no need to keep all old messages beyond one week. If there is something specific worth saving, there are apps for taking/pasting notes.
Signal has a "Disappearing Messages" feature that deletes conversations contents after a set amount of time. This is the only feature that I'm aware of on these major messenger services that works to solve the concern for your conversations on the recipients devices.
Anyone know if deleting message history is enough to kill the history on their servers?
you do realize that 'delete' does not actually delete your messages?
No, each party would have to opt to delete the history. Other platforms have the concept of private/temp conversations.
is there a way to get it to save deleted messages?
What about deleted messages, do they get deleted from servers too?
They will still have all your messages, even the deleted ones.
Can you elaborate on "whether messages could have been deleted"?
And lose message history of messages sent on phone? That would be terrible