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If I delete messages on my iPhone will those messages be deleted on my whatspp on my other device?
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NO.

You need to Delete your whatsapp msg for both the parties,as there is 2 options for deleting a particular msg, and also need to check whether there was any Auto Backup on or not.

Ritwik Sarkar
Advocate, Kolkata
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Ritwik Sarkar
Advocate, Kolkata
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If you delete message on what’s app on your I phone messages would be deleted on other connected devices 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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It would be deleted on your other connected devices 

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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If the other person has already seen it and the service provider is not giving you the option of deleting from both ends then it can not be done. 

Even if messages are erased from handset forensically it can be recovered. 

Devajyoti Barman
Advocate, Kolkata
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If the messages posted by you are deleted within certain period they can be deleted from receivers phone also. Messages can be deleted permanently from sender’s and receiver’s phone if they are within for hours from whatsapp and six hours from facebook.  

Ravi Shinde
Advocate, Hyderabad
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42 Consultations

Your question is purely technical one. With the help of developed technologies the messages can recover from any device. But the whatsapp company assured that the messages are under End to End encryption.

In Indian courts, WhatsApp chats are viewed as an electronic record and are permissible as a conventional document.

There are some conditions which should be satisfied for the admissibility of WhatsApp messages as Evidence:

  • The recipient should have received the messages, i.e. in the context of WhatsApp, double ticks.
  • The telephone should be in regular use. It ought not to be damaged.
  • The sender should have the intention to send those messages.

 

Bombay High Court held SMS/WhatsApp messages to be allowable under the Court of law under Section 65 of Indian Evidence Act, in the case of SBI Cards and Payment Services Pvt Ltd. versus Rohidas Yadav,. The Court held that messages sent through WhatsApp chats are viewed as legitimate Evidence under the law. The blue tick in WhatsApp is legitimate evidence that the Respondent has acknowledged the communication's physical copy. The recent judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in the matter of Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. KailashKushanrao Gorantyal and others (2020) 7 SCC 1 has held that a certificate Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act is required when reliance is being placed upon electronic record. Therefore, the said message would be of no evidentiary value as on date

 

Ajay N S
Advocate, Ernakulam
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WhatsApp messages are primarily device based. 

In my opinion the WhatsApp messages found in another device cannot be deleted by deleting messages in some other device.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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The WhatsApp or text messages are not interconnected from one device to another hence the act of deleting the messages in one device will not automatically delete the messages of other devices.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
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Dear Sir/Ma'am

Watsapp chat once deleted in you account attached a particular mobile number gets deleted on that particular account in all other devices. For example if you delete a chat in your watsapp on mobile, the same will also be deleted on your other device if you login with the same mobile no in another device and also if you log in through watsapp web. But to get rid of all data permanently you should also delete watsapp data stored as backup in your google drive.

Thank you

Anik Miu
Advocate, Bangalore
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The messages would be deleted.

Rahul Mishra
Advocate, Lucknow
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They have to be deleted in the backup too.

Rahul Mishra
Advocate, Lucknow
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And, you expect lawyers to answer this.

Siddharth Jain
Advocate, New Delhi
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- As per rule , the messages not depend upon the device , but on the server of the whatsApp.

- Hence, if you deleted the messages on your iPhone , then it means that it removed from the whatsApp , whether this is used in more than one device. 

- Further, after sending your messages , other persons already download the same /seen then you cannot erase the same from his device. 

- However, these days there is facility to delete the messages for everyone , which you can activate on your mobile. 

- Further, you can also recover the delete messages as well .

Mohammed Shahzad
Advocate, Delhi
14641 Answers
224 Consultations

1. It is a technical question.

 

2. However, the whatsapp message will be shown in other phones/devices unless it is deleted immediately after sending it and in that case you shall be asked whether you want it to be deleted from your phone or the  recipients' phones also.  

Krishna Kishore Ganguly
Advocate, Kolkata
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If you have not deleted the message immediately after sending it, the same will remain in other's phones.

Krishna Kishore Ganguly
Advocate, Kolkata
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