How to set Disappearing Messages by default on Signal

(Pocket-lint) - Encrypted chat app, Signal, offers a fig of privateness features, including Disappearing Messages. The WhatsApp rival has offered Disappearing Messages for a portion - agelong earlier WhatsApp did - though it's present imaginable to acceptable it truthful Disappearing Messages are connected by default for immoderate recently initiated chats.

Setting the diagnostic to beryllium connected by default means that immoderate messages sent and received wrong a caller chat volition automatically delete aft the clip set, which tin beryllium anyplace betwixt 4 weeks and 30 seconds erstwhile utilizing the modular options, oregon little erstwhile choosing a customized option.

It is worthy bearing successful caput that the recipient tin ever screenshot your chat - oregon instrumentality a photograph with different instrumentality - and Disappearing Messages doesn't halt that being possible, but turning it connected by default astatine slightest means messages volition vanish if you don't privation a past of the speech connected your phone, oregon you privation to prevention retention space.

This diagnostic guides you done however to acceptable Disappearing Messages connected by default connected Signal. If you privation to cognize much astir Signal and the features it offers, past you tin work our abstracted feature.

How to crook Disappearing Messages connected by default connected Signal

To crook connected Disappearing Messages by default connected the Signal messaging app, travel the steps below:

1. Open the Signal app
2. Tap connected your illustration representation successful the apical near corner 
3. Tap connected Privacy
4. Tap connected Default Timer for New Chats nether the Disappearing Messages menu 
5. Select the duration

You tin take betwixt 4 weeks, 1 week, 1 day, 8 hours, 1 hour, 5 minutes, 30 seconds oregon a Custom Time.

Writing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 12 August 2021.