Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp is rolling out several privacy features, including the ability to send messages while appearing offline and blocking screenshots of view-once messages.<\/p>\n
The messaging platform will also allow users to leave group chats privately without sending a notification to everyone when exiting groups.<\/p>\n
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company wants to keep messages as secure as in-person conversations.<\/p>\n
“We’ll keep building new ways to protect your messages and keep them as private and secure as face-to-face conversations,” he said in a Facebook post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n WhatsApp users can already block their “last seen” status for their contacts, including specific people<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The messaging platform is now rolling out a similar feature for users’ online presence, with the ability to block their online status from everyone or to mimic their “last seen” settings.<\/p>\n Notably, the system is reciprocal. If a user hides information from a specific contact, WhatsApp will hide their information in return.<\/p>\n WhatsApp users have been able to set messages to expire or viewed once before “self-destructing” for some time now.<\/p>\n However, the platform previously lacked screenshot detection<\/a><\/strong> meaning others could capture such messages before they disappeared.<\/p>\n It is now rolling out a feature that will let users prevent screenshots of their view-once messages.<\/p>\n WhatsApp also previously sent a message to all participants notifying them if someone left the group chat.<\/p>\n It is now rolling out an update that will drop the mass notification sent to group participants and instead inform only group admins when someone leaves a group.<\/p>\n According to WABetaInfo<\/a><\/strong>, the changes are rolling out in the latest Android and iOS betas.<\/p>\n Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has highlighted three major changes the company is rolling out on its WhatsApp messaging platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":456005,"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":[397,161,691,1767,73842,2594],"class_list":["post-455985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-facebook","tag-ios","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta-platforms","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455985"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456003,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455985\/revisions\/456003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: Meta’s chatbot calls Mark Zuckerberg “creepy” and peddles conspiracies days after launch<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"