{"id":302474,"date":"2019-04-11T07:31:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T05:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=302474"},"modified":"2019-04-11T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T05:32:08","slug":"whatsapp-adding-feature-to-ignore-hidden-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/302474-whatsapp-adding-feature-to-ignore-hidden-chats.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp adding feature to ignore hidden chats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has added a new update to the beta version of its app which shows that it is working on a new feature concerning archived chats, <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-19-101-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, chats which have been archived are hidden in the application until a new message arrives from that chat &#8211; at which point it is automatically unarchived by WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>The beta version of the app includes a new option called &#8220;Ignore archived chats&#8221;, which can be toggled on or off from WhatsApp&#8217;s notification settings.<\/p>\n<p>When enabled, archived chats won&#8217;t be unhidden when new messages arrive and will need to be manually restored by the user themselves.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp will also add a new &#8220;Archived&#8221; section to the main chat screen which allows you to change this option.<\/p>\n<p>This feature is not currently available, but it is expected to launch soon for the beta version of the application.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/302308-the-cheapest-smartphones-in-south-africa-that-support-whatsapp.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The cheapest smartphones in South Africa that support WhatsApp<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has added a new update to the beta version of its app which shows that it is working on a new feature concerning archived chats.<\/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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58524,58522,2594],"class_list":["post-302474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-archived-chats","tag-beta-update","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302474"}],"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=302474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302474\/revisions"}],"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=302474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}