WhatsApp now allows you to re-download accidentally deleted photos and videos on Android

WhatsApp has added a new feature allowing its users on Android to re-download media files that they accidentally deleted from their smartphones, Firstpost reported.

Citing a report from WABetaInfo, the report said that the feature was available for Android users using the messaging platform that is owned by Facebook.

 Earlier, Android users could download data that was up to 30 days old, but that data would disappear once the file was downloaded by the recipient.

To be clear, only those messages that are still in your chat log will be downloadable again. If the message has been deleted, that data is gone.

This feature is not available for iOS users because it is unlikely that users will delete anything from the internal file directory without access.

Last week, an update to resolve an issue of ‘Day’ bug that’s affecting a handful of Android users using the WhatsApp beta version 2.18.109 was released.

An earlier report from the same source had claimed that WhatsApp’s latest beta version 2.18.109 was affected by the ‘mysterious bug’ that replaced timestamps with ASCI codes. WhatsApp beta version 2.18.109 for Android was first released on April 12.

Timestamps for chats on the WhatsApp beta version for Android were showing as “89ESTERDAY and “84ODAY” instead of “Yesterday” and “Today”.  The bug was changing the first alphabets of the timestamps with ASCII codes. As soon as the bug was reported online, the WhatsApp team had pushed an update that fixed the issue.