> people enable disappearing messages in WhatsApp not because of a threat model but because they don't want their phone to run out of space. I would find that

> people enable disappearing messages in WhatsApp not because of a threat model but because they don't want their phone to run out of space. I would find that annoying too. What's so hard about periodically hitting "clear messages" on their side? > I don't own an iPhone so I don't know for sure if old messages clog iPhones too but the article hints that this is the case. The (otherwise very poor) native "Messages" app on iOS has an explicit feature that locally deletes all messages after a configurable time period.