Disappearing messages
A message can delete itself from your devices and theirs after a time you choose, whether or not it was read.
It is for what you send. What they send stays, unless they choose a time too.
- In the chat, hold Send, or the microphone when nothing is typed. On a computer, right-click it.
- Choose a time: "5 minutes", "1 hour", "8 hours", "1 day", "1 week" or "4 weeks".
- What you send in this chat from then on disappears after that time: text, photos, files and voice messages.
While it is on, the field says "Disappearing message" and an hourglass sits on their picture at the top of the chat. It is on for this chat on all your devices.
To change or end it, hold Send again, or open "Contact info", then "Disappearing messages". Choose another time or "Off". Messages sent before keep their own time.
A message that will disappear shows an hourglass beside its time. "Message info" says when it goes.
A device that is off or closed deletes such a message as soon as KUVRT opens again, before showing anything. A device that comes online after the time is up never shows it.
What this cannot do
- Before it disappears, the other person can save, copy or photograph it.
- An export made while it was there keeps it.
- Their app deletes it because it chooses to; a changed app can keep it.
- Your phone or computer may keep the text of a notification in its own history.
- Until the browser tidies up its files, someone with a copy of your device may still find deleted messages.
- Someone on an older version of KUVRT gets it only after they update.
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