WhatsApp is rolling out two new privacy updates this month, including the ability to adjust the visibility of your “Last Seen” status on a contact-by-contact basis and a way to silently leave group chats without all members of the group being notified when you do.
According to MacRumours, the “Last Seen” status of a contact sits on top of the conversation thread, informing you when that contact last opened and was active on the app.
For now, you CAN disable your “Last Seen” status but the settings options are only limited to “Everyone,” “My Contacts,” and “Nobody” so there is no way to make exceptions for individual contacts.
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But after this, WhatsApp is adding the option “My Contacts Except…” which will let you select specific contacts so that they don’t see when the last time that you were active on the messaging network.
The second privacy update that will be coming to WhatsApp is when you leave a group chat, only the administrators of the group are notified. When a group member opts out, a dialog appears that says “Only you and group admins will be notified that you left the group.”
Another feature that will soon be available on WhatsApp is a way to block users from taking screenshots of “view once” messages. Unlike disappearing messages, view once messages don’t get deleted after a specific time limit, but instead go away after the recipient has seen it once.
And by blocking screenshots, recipients won’t easily be able to save or share sensitive information with other users.
However, WhatsApp is still testing this feature but says it will start rolling it out to users soon.
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By: Aishah Akashah Ahadiat
