WhatsApp has added updates recently: block screenshots, hide the “online” status, exit groups silently, and the upgrade to delete send messages for a longer time.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, announced this week that WhatsApp will soon get three important new features that will give users more control over the messages they send through the platform. The manager said that the idea is that WhatsApp conversations are just as private and safe as face-to-face ones.
The first is being able to leave WhatsApp groups quietly. Only the person in charge of the group will be notified. The rest of the people in the group conversation won’t know that someone left unless they look at the list of people in the group and notice that someone is missing.
He also said that the second new feature will let you choose who can see when you’re online on WhatsApp. Previously, we could only decide who could see our last connection and if we wanted read receipts. From now on, we will also be able to choose who can see when we are online or just conceal this detail from everyone.
Third, once only messages will get blocked after screenshots. This wouldn’t make it difficult to store a temporary message because you could use another device’s camera. However, it would limit the most common approach.. The company has said that this feature won’t be available for a while.
At the same time, WhatsApp announced on Twitter that users will now have more time to delete messages they have sent to other people. It goes from a little more than an hour to a little more than two days. So, if you want to delete that message you accidentally sent to someone else, you’ll have more room to do so.
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WhatsApp offers privacy and security features
All of these new features that WhatsApp just announced add to the many other features that focus on privacy and safety. End-to-end encryption is the most popular. This method makes sure that only the sender and receiver of a message can know what it says. Even WhatsApp can’t figure out what people are saying in their messages.
In the past, the company has also used a two-step verification system. It adds another step when registering WhatsApp on a new device. Also the end-to-end encrypted backups with a password that only the user knows. So that if the account were hacked, the content of the backup could not be accessed.
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