If you’ve ever woken up full of regret about the messages you sent the night before, or you’ve sent a text to the wrong person, a new app could solve your woes.
Called Strings, the free app lets you remotely remove all traces of your inappropriate comments before the recipient ever gets the chance to see them.
The string of messages is ‘immediately and permanently’ deleted from everybody’s phone, and it is impossible to download or save messages from the app.
The only drawback is that the app requires everyone who is texting to have it installed.
Unlike other similar apps, such as Cluster, it doesn’t allow anyone to download the messages to a private folder once they’ve been sent.
Strings claims that all content is deleted from every user’s phone and from Strings servers. Users can also see when a message has, or has not, been read.
Strings is currently available for free from the iOS App Store. An updated version is due to be released in mid-January. There is no word on when an Android version will be released.
It follows the launch of a similar app, dubbed Ansa, which also allows people to delete messages sent to a person’s device remotely.
‘With Ansa you can go ‘off the record’, and have full conversations that automatically disappear; send self-destructing photos and videos that only last for seconds; and take back the messages you already shared using synced deletion,’ explained the developers.
