WhatsApp has started to try an important update to the iOS side with the new privacy feature it released at the beginning of September. For nearly seven years, WhatsApp has not made any privacy updates. Accordingly, the same privacy feature comes to the Android side.
The world’s most used messaging application, with its user agreement, is in pursuit of throwing the dark clouds around. In this sense, WhatsApp has taken the responsibility for the privacy settings that it has been putting its hands on for a long time.
WhatsApp is testing new privacy feature for Android
This Android trial, which is similar to the iOS privacy feature that we came across at the beginning of September, will probably have the same structure. WhatsApp, which previously offered users the option of who can view their profile information, brings a more detailed solution for this privacy setting.
Accordingly, it will now be possible to close profile information for even a single person. In this way, it is possible to close WhatsApp to the person you want to be seen last.
WhatsApp privacy feature trial appeared with the 2. 21. 20. 10 beta update
Thanks to this newly tried WhatsApp feature, apart from profile information, profile picture details can also be privately closed. The important detail here is that the blocked person does not need to use an updated version of WhatsApp.
If you have joined the beta program on the Android side for the WhatsApp application, this update may come to you very soon. For now, it is not clear when the WhatsApp update 2. 21. 20. 10, which will bring these features, will start to be distributed.
WhatsApp contract and what happened
Although WhatsApp is still number one in the messaging applications market, many users have started to look for alternative channels in the last year. Although Facebook has reneged on its contract decision for WhatsApp, the effects of this loss of reputation continue. Especially Telegram managed to attract a significant user base from WhatsApp during this period.
As you know, WhatsApp announced that it will delete the accounts of users who do not accept the contract as of February 1, with a message from users at the beginning of 2021. The company, which later postponed this date to May 15, finally gave up on this policy change. With this user agreement, WhatsApp wanted users to share their information with Facebook.
In Turkey, the Competition Authority announced that this agreement is not valid for users of Turkey, with the decision taken before Facebook’s WhatsApp agreement step back. WhatsApp announced at the end of May that the contract was shelved indefinitely.
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