The largest mobile application used for messaging has announced the introduction of a feature to automatically delete old messages.

The Facebook-owned company has announced for WhatsApp users that they will no longer have to worry about deleting messages as messages, videos and photos will be automatically deleted after 7 days.

WhatsApp also released a video on the social networking site announcing the introduction of the feature.

 Note that WhatsApp users did not have the facility to delete old messages automatically, but now they will select an option and select specific messages, after which they will be automatically deleted after 7 days.

Users complained that they found it difficult to delete messages, photos and videos sent by friends, which filled their mobile phone memory.

Messages will be automatically deleted after 7 days if the user activates a specific group or any friend disappear message.

All previous messages from the app will be automatically deleted at the user's specified time.

A WhatsApp spokesperson said: "We are introducing the option to delete messages that are at least 7 days old as users were in dire need of this feature." I will be available to all users. The company is introducing this facility in phases.

You have to open any friend or group and click on it (contact info) after which the details will appear in front of the user and there will also be an option of 'automatically disappear messages' under the started message.