Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, announcing the new privacy features for WhatsApp, said this would help keep the app “as private and secure as face-to-face conversations”.
Don’t want to be bothered by pesky relatives and their unending forwards on WhatsApp but cannot quit the group out of respect? Mark Zuckerberg has you covered. In a latest WhatsApp update, you can now exit these groups without alerting anyone – silently. The process is pretty much the same except the exit notification does not pop up on the chat.
The widely used and popular app has a few new updates for its two billion users. You can even hide your online status now – like you could hide your last seen – from your friends. And you can also block screenshots on “view once” messages.
Hiding the online status has been under beta testing last month for iOS, according to many reports.
Meta chief Zuckerberg, announcing the new privacy features, said this would help keep the app “as private and secure as face-to-face conversations”.
