For a number of years, WhatsApp has had a disappearing messages feature, allowing you to arrange specific chats to wipe their messages after seven days if you're concerned about privacy or simply want to avoid an ever-expanding record.
However, it appears that it is working on a method that will allow you to mark specific messages in those chats for retention, allowing you to save communications that may include information that you will need in the future, for example.
This information comes from WABetaInfo, which noticed the creation of a new "Kept Messages" option under chat settings in WhatsApp's current beta version, which it has dismantled.
That displays the sub-menu, implying that you'll be able to mark some messages as favourites, though we don't know how many you'll be allowed to keep.
It'd also be fascinating to see how this works in group conversations, where you'd probably need other people's consent to keep texts.
Nonetheless, the concept of the setting suggests that WhatsApp is aiming to let consumers save messages they're likely to need in more than a week's hence. However, no date has been set for when it will be available on the actual app.
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