BlackBerry Introduces New Privacy And Control Features To Messenger App
Smartphone maker BlackBerry has introduced new
privacy and control features for its messaging app, BBM, allowing users
to delete messages from chats and share pictures for short duration of
time.
Similar to popular photo messaging app
Snapchat, BBM will now allow users to set a timer for controlling how
long messages and pictures they share with contacts can be viewed within
BBM.
The message is hidden until the recipient
touches and holds on the chat. Then, once the timer has expired (or if
the recipient takes their finger off the screen), the message is no
longer visible.
The user also receives a notification if BBM detects that the recipient has taken a screenshot of the image or message.
"At
the core of the BBM experience is privacy and control. These two
notions are more important today than ever before as people are looking
for simple ways to help guard against their messages getting into the
wrong hands or being seen by anyone other than the intended recipient,"
BlackBerry said in a statement.
The new features for BBM introduced today enable users to communicate with more discretion and freedom, it added.
Using
the message retraction feature, users can retract their message to
remove it from their BBM chat before or after it has been read, so that
it is no longer visible within the BBM chat.
The
Timed Messages and Message Retraction will, however, be are premium
features. While these will be available free to BBM users for next three
months, these will later be offered as part of a broader bundle of
features with BBM subscription later.
"These new
enhancements to BBM were highly requested so we're excited to be
delivering them to users today," BlackBerry President Global Enterprise
Services John Sims said.
These capabilities will
allow users to be more creative in how they deliver their messages while
also being confident that their content is kept private and seen only
by its intended recipient, he added.
Besides, BBM
has introduced a new feature that allows users to request an HD version
to enjoy picture they receive on BBM in full detail.
The
new features are available for download over the next couple of days
for BlackBerry 10 smartphones, iPhones and Android smartphones by
installing the latest BBM update in BlackBerry World, App Store and
Google Play.
Introduced in 2005, BBM was a popular
messaging app on BlackBerry handsets. It was later made available on
other platforms like Android and iOS following strong compete from newer
apps like WhatsApp, LINE and WeChat
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