{"id":301732,"date":"2019-04-04T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T08:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=301732"},"modified":"2019-04-04T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T08:11:29","slug":"new-privacy-settings-for-whatsapp-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/301732-new-privacy-settings-for-whatsapp-groups.html","title":{"rendered":"New privacy settings for WhatsApp groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.whatsapp.com\/10000661\/New-Privacy-Settings-for-Groups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched<\/a><\/strong> new privacy-focused group invitation settings to give users more control over which groups they are added to.<\/p>\n<p>From the Settings menu, users can now select the Groups option under the Privacy section to change whether they can automatically be added to groups.<\/p>\n<p>Users are able to choose between &#8220;Nobody&#8221;, &#8220;My Contacts&#8221;, or &#8220;Everyone&#8221; for default group invitation approvals.<\/p>\n<p>If the admin of a group is unable to automatically add a WhatsApp user due to their privacy and invitation settings, that user will receive an invitation to join the group which expires after 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With these new features, users will have more control over the group messages they receive,&#8221; WhatsApp said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These new privacy settings will begin rolling out to some users starting today and will be available worldwide in the coming weeks to those using the latest version of WhatsApp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/301232-whatsapp-is-working-on-a-dark-mode.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">WhatsApp is working on a dark mode<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched new privacy-focused group invitation settings for its app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[57406,4032,2594],"class_list":["post-301732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-group-invitations","tag-privacy-settings","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301734,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301732\/revisions\/301734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}