{"id":323150,"date":"2019-10-14T07:45:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T05:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=323150"},"modified":"2019-10-14T07:46:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T05:46:05","slug":"new-group-blacklist-feature-for-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/323150-new-group-blacklist-feature-for-whatsapp.html","title":{"rendered":"New group blacklist feature for WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is working on a new Group Privacy Blacklist feature designed to prevent unwanted group invitations, <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-19-289-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>This feature forms part of a number of new group privacy settings which have already been partially rolled out to WhatsApp users in India, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Group Privacy Blacklist function replaces a previous option which prevented all users from automatically inviting you to groups with a new setting named &#8220;My contacts except&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This option allows you to blacklist certain contacts from inviting you to groups while still allowing group invites from trusted sources.<\/p>\n<p>In cases where group invites are blocked, users will be prompted to send you a private invitation through the individual chat, giving you the chance to join the group.<\/p>\n<p>Changing to this setting still allows users to block all invitations by using the option to select all of their contacts.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has reportedly begun implementing this feature in beta versions of its Android and iOS applications, although there is currently no release date for the new functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.whatsapp.com\/10000661\/New-Privacy-Settings-for-Groups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced earlier this year<\/strong><\/a> that it would implement new group privacy settings, stating that this functionality would roll out soon.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/323138-telegram-may-delay-cryptocurrency-launch.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telegram may delay cryptocurrency launch<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is working on a new Group Privacy Blacklist feature designed to prevent unwanted group invitations.<\/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":[2562,61358,2594],"class_list":["post-323150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-beta","tag-group-blacklist","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323150"}],"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=323150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323150\/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=323150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}