Three new WhatsApp privateness options coming to Meta’s in style messaging app allow you to management who sees your on-line standing, block view-once screenshots and extra.
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What’s happening? Mark Zuckerberg’s Fb submit reveals three new WhatsApp privateness options that’ll improve your privateness and safety when utilizing the messaging app. For starters, now you can management who can see whenever you’re on-line. Screenshotting disappearing view-once messages is not potential. And eventually, now you can exit group chats with out notifying everybody.
Why care? Earlier than, you couldn’t management your on-line presence, anybody might screenshot view-once pictures and exiting group chats notified everybody.
What to do? Make sure you get the newest WhatsApp model and check out the brand new privateness options for your self (they’re rolling out progressively so test again later if you happen to don’t have them but).
3 new WhatsApp privateness and security measures
The official announcement on the WhatsApp weblog notes that WhatsApp’s dad or mum firm Meta has kicked off a privateness advert marketing campaign to teach individuals about these new options, beginning in India and the UK and coming later this yr to extra international locations.
1. Management who sees your final seen and on-line standing
Now you can management your on-line presence by deciding who sees whenever you’re on-line. You may cover your on-line standing from particular contacts or set it to “Similar as Final Seen” if you happen to’d like your final seen and on-line to have the identical degree of privateness.
You may set your final seen standing to be seen by everybody, nobody or solely individuals you’ve added as your WhatsApp contacts. And if you happen to select the choice labeled “My Contacts Besides,” you’ll be capable of cover your standing from particular contacts.
Your final seen and on-line statuses inform others the final time you used WhatsApp and whether or not you’re on-line. “Final seen refers back to the final time the contact used WhatsApp,” in line with a WhatsApp help doc on final seen and on-line.
If somebody is on-line on WhatsApp, this implies they’ve the app open within the foreground on their system and are related to the web although it doesn’t essentially imply they’ve learn your message.
2. Screenshot blocking for view-once messages
WhatsApp helps sending media that may solely be seen as soon as earlier than disappearing, however it has a serious omission: no screenshot blocking.
That’s going to vary quickly as a result of any try at screenshotting a view-once picture or utilizing the iOS display recording characteristic to document video captures will fail and the recipient will see a message, studying:
This screenshot was blocked for added privateness.
Blocking screenshots solely works for view-once pictures and movies. It’s nonetheless potential for a chat participant to seize a screenshot of a WhatsApp chat with out you being notified about it, even when the chat contains some disappearing messages.
Sadly, blocking screenshots received’t forestall anybody from utilizing one other telephone or recording system to snap a picture of a WhatsApp dialog.