Sometimes it feels good to know when our WhatsApp contacts last logged into the app. However, when using this feature, we also notify our contacts of our last seen status. In terms of privacy, the last seen feature may be bothering some of us. This rule of thumb for the feature, which until now only had the option to turn it off completely, is changing soon.
Every messaging app, from Telegram to Signal, gives you access to a certain degree of privacy options. Thus, you decide how much of your profile the person you are messaging can view. While Telegram was good at this, WhatsApp was a little behind. Finally, there are additions to the privacy options in WhatsApp.
WhatsApp will let you hide your last seen status from your chosen ones on iOS
You can customize some privacy features of WhatsApp to be closed or open only to the people you choose. Unfortunately, last seen, one of the most important privacy options, did not allow such customization. However, it has been revealed that WhatsApp will come to the iOS version, and now you can hide your last seen from only the people you choose. The first screenshots shared are as follows:
If you hide your last seen from only the person you selected in this way, you will not be able to see that person’s last seen. That’s why you should think twice before using the feature. Although the feature is currently in the distribution phase, it is not accessible to every user. You can update the application to the latest version and see if this feature is available in the settings. If it hasn’t come, all you can do is wait a bit.
This isn’t the only feature coming to WhatsApp anytime soon. We shared with you yesterday that a new feature called ‘Communities’ will be added to the application. However, it was announced that the file sharing limit would increase to 2GB. Increasing the limit, which has been 100MB until now, will seem like medicine to us in the coming weeks.
Although there is no information about whether the feature will come to Android in the future, our guess is that it will come.
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