At last! The privacy setting every silent group member on WhatsApp has been waiting for will soon be here, the ability to leave the group chat without the dreaded “so-and-so left.”
To those brave enough to exit the group chat without overthinking who exactly you’ve offended and cut ties with, this might seem pretty anticlimactic for an update. Kind of like those annoying ‘fixed bugs’ ones right?
But for the rest of us that simply settle for being a perpetually inactive-but-present group member or for those opting for the ‘Mute Always‘ option because they just can’t bring themselves to publicly announce they’d rather not be part of this conversation, it’s a pretty revolutionary feature.
The Meta-owned messenger app announced a series of privacy tweaks on Tuesday that will allow its users to avoid any social awkwardness by politely, gracefully, and most importantly, silently exiting WhatsApp groups with only you and the group admins knowing.
Your privacy deserves more protection.
That’s why we’re excited to announce three ? layers of security to wrap your messages in.
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— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) August 9, 2022
Other new security and privacy features include the ability to control who can see your online status for when you feel like checking your messages privately; a two-day time period to delete already sent messages; and Screenshot Blocking for its recently introduced Snap Chat-like view once messages feature.
In a Facebook post, Meta’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said “We’ll keep building new ways to protect your messages and keep them as private and secure as face-to-face conversations.
According to WABetaInfo, these new features will be rolling out in the latest Android and iOS betas from this month.
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