Apple lets you set 30 day or 1 year deletion. I used to use it when I used my phone for work long ago.
WhatsApp takes a different approach of making the message itself self-destruct. Personally, I think that’s a weird approach that doesn’t make sense for what most people want to do.
With “piled” data like messages, you’re better off just having an expiry policy with exceptions. Apple gets the expiry right-ish (the options are 30 days or one year which is constricting imo), but it’s really difficult to make exceptions or even find messages past a few days.
Note that my background is historically in enterprise IT, specifically in large email platforms for several years. My perspective is driven by that. Text messages and email are uniquely well suited to get people fired or worse - written artifacts that are easily used out of context.
WhatsApp takes a different approach of making the message itself self-destruct. Personally, I think that’s a weird approach that doesn’t make sense for what most people want to do.
With “piled” data like messages, you’re better off just having an expiry policy with exceptions. Apple gets the expiry right-ish (the options are 30 days or one year which is constricting imo), but it’s really difficult to make exceptions or even find messages past a few days.
Note that my background is historically in enterprise IT, specifically in large email platforms for several years. My perspective is driven by that. Text messages and email are uniquely well suited to get people fired or worse - written artifacts that are easily used out of context.