Enabling Disappearing Messages

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Applicable to End Users

The Disappearing Messages feature in Signal Capture allows you manage messages and keep your message history tidy. When this feature is enabled, sent and received, disappears from your devices after the timer has elapsed.  All disappearing messages have a timer countdown icon displayed at the bottom of the message bubble.

The timer starts as follows:

  • For a sent disappearing message, the timer starts after you have sent the message.

  • For a received disappearing message, the timer starts after you have read the message.

To enable disappearing messages:

  1. Open the application.

  2. Tap the  icon > Settings > Privacy.
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  3. Under Disappearing Messages, tap Default timer for new chats.

    Note

    By default, the disappearing messages timer is set to Off and messages are always displayed in the conversation thread.

  4. Set the disappearing message timer. You can set the timer between 30 seconds and four weeks.
    You can set a custom time in terms of seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, and days.

  5. Tap Save.