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New WhatsApp Privacy Settings

WhatsApp is working to bring more options for the account privacy settings. It’ll give you additional control over who you want to allow to see your account information. With this new option, you can individually select the contacts that will be able to see your WhatsApp activities, rather than selecting in a bulk.

Let’s first talk about privacy settings. WhatsApp privacy setting allows you to set restrictions on last seen, profile photo, about, status, and live locations. Furthermore, a user can also decide who will add him/her to other WhatsApp groups. Moving ahead, WhatsApp provides you three options for last seen, profile photo, and About that include

  • Everyone
  • My Contacts
  • Nobody.

It’s a set of visible information, granted by an account holder for other users. If a holder sets as everyone his profile photo, last seen and about can be seen by anyone who is on WhatsApp. The same goes with My Contacts and Nobody. However, if a users set Nobody for last seen, the user will not be able to see other’s last seen either. Over these three options, WhatsApp will provide one more option for these privacy settings soon.

Before discussing it, let’s check the preview first-

WhatsApp iOS Privacy Settings

(New WhatsApp Privacy Settings, images from WABetaInfo)

New WhatsApp Privacy Settings:

As you see in the image, besides the three available features, a new “My contact Except” is also appears. It’ll let you exclude the individuals from your contact list whom you don’t want to let know about your activities. It’s the same feature as we use in the privacy setting for WhatsApp Status and Groups.

Observing the image, it seems to work as previously. If a user doesn’t share his last seen with others, he also won’t be able to know other’s last seen. To be mentioned, this screenshot is taken from WhatsApp privacy settings on iOS suggesting that it will come for the iOS users first.

Availability:

This feature is under development for further changes. It’s planned to release with future updates as it isn’t available for the beta testers yet. At present, you can use the rest three feature on both platforms.

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Where to find Privacy Settings:

  • Open your WhatsApp Account
  • Select the WhatsApp Setting  
  • Click on the Account Settings
  • You can find the first option as Privacy 

More about WhatsApp:

Furthermore, WhatsApp is redesigning the Chat bubbles for iOS users. The new chat bubbles will be more rounder and bigger than the users are using currently. However, the WhatsApp team is still developing it and could release it with more enhancements. We’ll provide you more updates on this matter, until then stay connected with us.

(Source: WABetaInfo)

Yash is a graduate of computer science and followed his way into journalism, he is interested in various subjects related to technologies and politics. Yash likes to listen classical songs and has a huge library of classical mixes.