WhatsApp Inc has recently unveiled three important privacy features that might significantly alter how you use the app.
Users can now exchange text messages and voice messages, conduct audio, and video chats, and share photographs, documents, user locations, and other stuff via the software, which is proprietary.
Over a 100 billion messages are sent and received on WhatsApp every day. To name a few of WhatsApp’s significant shortcomings, it is impossible to conceal from certain users, notifies everyone that you have left a particular group, and many more.
Users will soon be able to exit group chats without notifying others, as well as select who can see when they are online. People will now be able to prevent others from screenshotting ‘View After’ messages, which are intended to disappear once opened.
Control Your Online Presence
I am generally the offender; my Online status is always on, even during the night, since I kept the app open and did not disconnect the mobile data or WiFi.
With this new feature, you can disable the Online status and remain anonymous or incognito even when the app is active.
Screenshot Blocking for View Once Messages
I adore this feature since it allows me to share a password with you in a letter or status update while preventing many others from seeing it, even if they were the intended recipient.
With the addition of the blocking feature, the “View Once” feature, which enables users to transmit images and videos that can only be viewed once after being opened by the receiver, is now more safe and reliable. WhatsApp claimed the screenshot blocking feature is presently being tested and would be available to users shortly.
Silent Group Leave
When a person quits a group, a notification is displayed at the bottom of the chat informing other members of the group who has ‘left.’
Think about leaving a family group where everyone can see it. You may be having personal troubles and would want to avoid specific groups, particularly those to which you have been forcibly added; WhatsApp is rolling out the opportunity to do so without notifying everyone.
The new features, according to the Meta-owned messaging platform, seek to improve the privacy of online conversations.
They are being introduced alongside a worldwide advertising campaign that will begin in the United Kingdom and India. In order to compete with Snapchat, the Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp introduced a new feature called Status in 2017 and has been re-inventing it ever since. We also anticipate hearing additional information about this feature in the near future.
