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WhatsApp has rolled out new privacy features including a way to hide your ‘last seen’ status from specific contacts.
As per the new feature, users will be able to leave group chats silently, control who can see their online status, and block screenshots on View Once messages.
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said this would help keep WhatsApp messaging ‘as private and secure as face-to-face conversations’.
It will begin rolling out the features this month, highlighting them in a global campaign, starting in the UK.
With the recent changes, users will be able to leave without notifying the other group chats users, only alerting group administrators.
On a related note, WhatsApp is also working to give more control to the group admins so that they can exercise their power well and stop misinformation from spreading. For this, the group admin should be more alert and aware of what is going on in the group.
Wabetainfo has reported that soon WhatsApp group admins will be able to delete messages for everyone in the group. For now, only select beta testers have access to the feature but WhatsApp may roll it out in the coming days. The feature is currently available for beta testers.
