Important WhatsApp privacy features and updates over the years

[ad_1] Meta-owned WhatsApp refers to itself as a “simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling” service. According to Statista, WhatsApp has around 487 million users in India alone, making the country the lastest user base for the instant messaging and calling service. Here are some of the privacy and security features that have been introduced to […]

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WhatsApp now lets you hide your Profile Picture, Last Seen and Status updates from some contacts

[ad_1] WhatsApp is known to periodically release new features that help users keep their privacy in check easily. A new update for the instant messaging app now brings a new way to hide your profile picture, status updates and some other information from people. The new update adds more granular control over who is able […]

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WhatsApp group calls get banner notifications, selective muting and more

[ad_1] WhatsApp has been continuously adding new features to the platform to make its chat, voice and video calling abilities better. In the latest update, WhatsApp has added three new features to group calls. The new features for group calls allow users to know when someone has joined a group call, while also allowing them […]

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WhatsApp group admins to soon have more control over new members

[ad_1] WhatsApp Group links can be really convenient when you want to create large groups quickly. A shareable link allowed admins to simply share it while all relevant users could themselves join the group via the link. However, this convenience also opened a security vulnerability as the link could end up in the wrong hands […]

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WhatsApp Groups with 512 members now rolling out to beta users

[ad_1] WhatsApp has been bringing a number of new features to the instant messaging platform over the last few weeks, but one feature that fans had been waiting for for a long time is now coming to beta users of the platform. We are talking about larger WhatsApp Groups, which can now accommodate 512 members […]

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Edit messages to exit groups silently: All the key upcoming WhatsApp features

[ad_1] In a bid to improve user experience, Meta’s WhatsApp is constantly developing a lot of new features. The instant messaging platform usually tests the feature before making it live for all of its users. Here we list all features that WhatsApp is currently testing and might be soon rolled out in the future version […]

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WhatsApp may soon get an ‘undo’ button for deleted messages

[ad_1] WhatsApp’s delete message feature is one of the handiest abilities of the instant messaging platform. However, if a user accidentally chooses the ‘Delete for me’ option instead of the ‘Delete for everyone’ option, they are left with no option to delete the message for others, having themselves lost the text or image. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? […]

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WhatsApp may soon let you edit messages after sending them

[ad_1] Editing a WhatsApp message once it is sent is impossible, but WhatsApp is working on a solution to this with a new edit feature. The feature will let you edit messages once they’re sent, letting you correct anything from silly typos to wrong information. A new report by WABetaInfo suggests that the edit message […]

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WhatsApp may soon let you ‘keep’ disappearing messages before they’re gone

[ad_1] WhatsApp introduced Disappearing messages to make conversations more private, but when users who make rely on the disappearing mode to communicate may still have some important messages that they wish to keep safe. This could be an address, a set of instructions or something similar. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,’script’, ‘https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js’); […]

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WhatsApp will soon let you secretly leave groups

[ad_1] One of WhatsApp’s (and most other instant messaging platforms’) most frustrating sides is alerting all users in a group. This simply renders users who don’t want to be part of a group unable to leave the group without notifying every member with a small message inside the group. However, that could soon change. WhatsApp […]

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