WhatsApp introduced the feature to retract or delete a message after sending a message for 7 minutes but in this article, you’ll be acquainted on how to retract and delete messages even after a week.

Not everytime you will have time to retract messages in 7 minutes time. What if you don’t have time or you got hook up due to poor network, errors or confidentialities and the retract expired? Don’t worry, we are with you.

No matter how old the message is, you can use this tutorial to retract or delete your WhatsApp messages. Follow these steps:

• Go to the message you wish to delete or retract and check the time. Assuming the time in this tutorial is 8:00am today.
• Now, activate “Flight mode” and go to Setting>> Apps>> WhatsAppand “Force Stop” the app”.
• Now, go to your phone time & date and change the time to some minutes above the time of the WhatsApp message and make sure is not above 7 minutes of the time you sent the message.
• Now, use the method to retract WhatsApp messages above 7 minutes time and continually.

Tip: You should turn off automatic time and date before changing the manual date and time.
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