Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook on Monday to announce the best news for WhatsApp users.

The messaging platform will now let billions of users edit their messages within 15 minutes of sending them.

Sharing a screenshot of the development, Zuckerberg wrote, “You can now edit your WhatsApp messages up to 15 mins after they’re sent!”

In his post, the tech boss showed a sample with a sample screenshot where he was able to correct “Beast of luck!” with “Best of luck!”. Beast is the name of Zuck’s shaggy pooch.

The official Twitter handle of the Meta-owned platform also announced the news. “It’s here! Message editing is rolling out now. You now get up to 15 minutes after sending a message to edit it. So you don’t have to worry if you duck it up,” the post read alongside a short video making edits possible.

The WhatsApp blog post stated that the edit feature has been rolled out to users globally and will be available to use in the coming weeks. This long-due feature will help users fix the misspellings in their messages.

“For the moments when you make a mistake, or simply change your mind, you can now edit your sent messages. As with all personal messages, media and calls, your messages and the edits you make are protected by end-to-end encryption,” said the instant messaging platform said in a blog post.

How to edit sent messages?

• Long-press on a sent message
• Choose ‘Edit’ from the drop-down menu
• And see the magic

Also, one must edit messages within 15 minutes after sending them out.

Messages that are edited will come with an ‘edited’ tag displayed alongside them. While this will let the receiver know that corrections were made, but won’t show them the edit history.

Competitors like Telegram and Signal already allow users to edit messages, however, microblogging site Twitter rolled out the feature to select users last year.

Last week, WhatsApp announced a new feature called ‘Chat Lock’, allowing users to protect their intimate conversations behind a layer of security.

“Locking a chat takes that thread out of the inbox and puts it behind its own folder that can only be accessed with your device password or biometric, like a fingerprint. It also automatically hides the contents of that chat in notifications, too,” WhatsApp said in a statement.

One can lock a chat by tapping the name of a one-to-one or group and selecting the lock option.