Whatsapp Inc.

Christopher Luc

Zafir Khan

Jimmy Enrico Jacques Holzer

Elton Kyin-Fong Leong

Dafeng Ou

Santiago Pina Ros

Shalini Sah

Nurzhan Bakibayev

The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for dynamically controlling ephemeral messaging threads and ephemeral message duration settings across computing devices while improving security by maintaining end-to-end encryption. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems can transmit encrypted ephemeral messages, including ephemeral message duration settings and ephemeral setting timestamps. The disclosed systems can decrypt received messages on receiving client devices and dynamically apply ephemeral message duration settings to different message threads. For example, the disclosed systems can modify existing duration settings at a receiving client device to match a received ephemeral message duration setting based on determining that the received ephemeral setting timestamp predates an existing setting timestamp. Further, the disclosed systems can apply the ephemeral message duration setting to delete ephemeral messages from an ephemeral message thread.

Utilizing encrypted ephemeral messages to modify ephemeral message duration settings

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Christopher Luc