Whatsapp has made a rather half-hearted attempt at disappearing messages more to save space than to be secure. Even their FB Messenger has done a better job as the article points out.
Google’s own Messenger went live globally this week with the RCS messaging protocol but it is "not yet implementing end-to-end-encryption". Telegram still defaults to non-E2EE although it is feature packed especially for large group management.
The free solution is still available from Signal though. Out of the more "mainstream" messengers it is still the most solid secure messenger with features most users are needing.
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If you use WhatsApp, it’s not as secure as you might think…