How to use View Once feature of WhatsApp

WhatsApp keeps updating its features from time to time. We are going to tell you about one such feature of this app by which if you send a photo or video to a receiver, he will be able to see it only once. This feature is useful when you send a photo or video that you don’t want the receiver to keep forever. The View Once feature of WhatsApp gives you this facility. Whatever photo or video you send through this feature is not even saved in the photo gallery of the receiver’s phone.

Here we are telling you in a step-by-step guide how you can use the View Once feature of WhatsApp on your Android or iOS device.

How to use WhatsApp View Once on Android and iOS

Before starting the steps to use the feature, you should know that whatever photo or video you send through View Once, you will be able to see it only once. You will not be able to forward, save, star or share these shared photos or videos. Another thing worth noting here is that if the receiver does not open the sent photo or video, then that message will automatically expire within 14 days.

1. Open the latest version of WhatsApp on your device and select the photo or video that you want to show to a receiver only once.
2. Tap the View Once icon in front of the caption bar.
3. In the middle of the content, you will get an alert to activate the feature.
4. Now tap on Send button and send the photo or video to the contact.

WhatsApp advises its users to send messages with the View Once feature only to a trusted person because the receiver can also take a screenshot of your message before it gets erased. When a screenshot is taken, no notification is sent to the sender. Before the message is deleted from the chat, the receiver can also take a photo of the message or record its video.

The company says that the encrypted media sent through the View Once feature remains stored on WhatsApp servers for a few weeks. If the receiver wants to report that media then it will also be shared with WhatsApp.