WhatsApp is more likely to be engaged on a function that might disguise on-line standing on the applying for Android, iOS, and Desktop customers. The brand new function is anticipated to be launched within the due course.
In keeping with WABetaInfo which supplies updates of WhatsApp’s upcoming options or upgrades, on Saturday mentioned, after saying that WhatsApp is growing some main options akin to the chance to edit textual content messages, the corporate is now engaged on the flexibility to cover the net standing for a future replace of the app!
In its report, WABetaInfo acknowledged that over time, quite a lot of customers requested to have the ability to disguise their on-line standing. There could also be completely different explanation why folks need to use WhatsApp in stealth mode: for instance, some customers need to use WhatsApp with out being disturbed by different folks, or they really feel stalked by somebody.
“We all know lots of people need this function, so we additionally created an idea to disable the net standing final 12 months, that’s a great way to share suggestions with WhatsApp,” it mentioned within the report.
Thereby, taking customers suggestions into consideration, WhatsApp is growing a function that lets customers select who can see their on-line standing after they open the app for sending messages or chatting, or updating their standing.
It’s anticipated that WhatsApp will add an choice titled ‘Who can see once I’m on-line’ to the ‘Final seen and on-line’ part within the setting on the app.
As per the report, will probably be potential to configure who can see after we are on-line proper inside our final seen settings thanks to 2 new choices: “Everybody” and “Similar as Final Seen”. For instance, in case you select “My contacts” for “Final Seen” and “Similar as Final Seen” for “on-line”, it means non-contacts received’t have the ability to see whenever you’re on-line.
WhatsApp final 12 months began mechanically hiding the final seen to contacts you by no means chatted with to stop third-party apps from monitoring customers’ final seen and on-line standing, the report acknowledged.
WABetaInfo mentioned, sadly, people who we already chatted with might nonetheless see after we had been on-line however because of the brand new privateness setting “who can see once I’m on-line”, they received’t have the ability to do it anymore.
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