Privacy
How to send voice messages that disappear after listening
Some things are good to hear once. Here's how the deletion settings work.
iMessage deletes audio from your device two minutes after you send or play it by default. WhatsApp has a view once option, and COPY deletes messages automatically after everyone has played them, or after seven days.
In COPY, you don't have to remember to switch deletion on.
In iMessage
Open Settings, then Apps, then Messages. Under Audio Messages, find Expire and choose After 2 Minutes or Never.
Each person controls the copy on their phone. The listener can tap Keep. Your copy disappearing doesn't mean theirs has disappeared too.
In WhatsApp
Open the chat, hold the microphone, and slide up to lock the recording. Tap the view once icon, the 1 in a circle, before sending. That voice message plays once and can't be forwarded.
Sources: Apple's iPhone User Guide and the WhatsApp Help Center.
In COPY
Deletion is how it works from the start. Hold down. Talk. Let go. Once everyone on the channel has played your message, it's deleted. Unplayed messages expire after seven days.
COPY Club adds Skip & Replay, which keeps an encrypted copy on the listener's phone for ten minutes after listening.
Save the recording you want to hear again next year somewhere else.
Talking is free on iPhone. Send a friend an invite and you'll have a channel together. Wi-Fi or cellular data works.