Making the announcement himself on his private Fb web page, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed “… new privateness options that present interlocking layers of safety and offer you extra management over your messages on WhatsApp.” The three new layers of safety are meant to maintain person conversations safer on the favored messaging app.
Depart teams silently
WhatsApp will lastly make it doable for customers to exit a bunch privately with out notifying the opposite members of the group. Leaving teams was problematic for a lot of customers, because it wasn’t precisely discreet. Each member of the group would obtain the dreaded, “x has left the group” notification, inflicting all types of hypothesis. Why did they go away? Are they indignant?
This concern produced a flood of complaints, and infrequently customers would simply select to mute the group as an alternative of leaving it and triggering the undesirable notification. Now, solely the group administrator shall be notified when a member leaves the group. Nobody else will discover out except they painstakingly comb by the member checklist.
Select Who Can See When You’re On-line
One other characteristic disliked by WhatsApp customers was the show of their on-line presence. Maybe you needed to examine if the boss despatched you a message, however didn’t wish to reply instantly. However the second you begin checking, the app confirmed that you just have been on-line. Or if somebody despatched you a message that you just selected to not learn instantly, the sender may see that you just have been on-line doing different stuff within the app. Why don’t they learn my message? Are they dissing me? Now, a person can choose who can and may’t see when they’re on-line to allow them to examine messages discreetly.
Screenshot Blocking
Probably the most requested new options is lastly coming – screenshot blocking. “View As soon as” is a well-liked option to share photographs or media, however maybe you don’t need them to stay perpetually on the web. Now, once you click on on the “1″ button that seems when attaching a photograph, indicating that it could possibly solely be seen as soon as, the app will forestall the recipients from taking a screenshot of the picture.
When are these new options arriving? The primary two shall be regularly rolled out in August with none person motion wanted. The screenshot blocking characteristic remains to be being examined and shall be rolled out to customers “quickly.” What different privateness options are wanted? Many customers wish to see the “message deleted by sender” bug to be fastened. When a message despatched by mistake has been deleted, the meant recipient nonetheless sees the “message deleted” notification on the display, one other reason behind person nervousness and rampant hypothesis.
