WhatsApp to roll out new features option for users to privately use the app without being visibly online, the platform called it ‘online presence control’.
The new feature will let WhatsApp users curate which contacts can see their online status while hiding it from others.
The list of contacts who can view your online status doesn’t have a cap and you can swap people in and out at any time. The new option update will come to both its desktop and mobile app offerings.
WhatsApp will allow users to leave groups privately without sending out a mass notification that they bailed. Group admins will still get notified, but generally, this change should make moving through groups on the app more fluid and less awkward. This change will also roll out to both the desktop and mobile version of the app.
Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said of the new features said: “We’ll keep building new ways to protect your messages and keep them as private and secure as face-to-face conversation.”
Leave a Reply