Stalkers Won’t Be Able To See Your Last Seen Or Online Details Thanks to WhatsApp’s New Privacy Features.
WhatsApp has updated new privacy features aimed at preventing third-party surveillance apps from keeping track of a user’s last seen and online status without their knowledge.
Over the last few days, WhatsApp has added additional privacy features to its app, allowing you to speak without worrying about stalkers. Users can already hide their last seen and online behaviors from everyone or from persons who aren’t on their contact list in the chat app. However, you may be startled to learn that certain apps may track your WhatsApp activity, which the new privacy protections prevent.
This information is coming from WABetaInfo, which released a WhatsApp customer service email answer. The new privacy capabilities are now available to all WhatsApp contacts, including corporate accounts, according to the email, “making it tougher for individuals you don’t know and haven’t interacted with to see your last seen and online presence on WhatsApp.”
This new privacy option, which impacts who can see or not view a user’s online status, is designed to work automatically, unlike many other WhatsApp features that can be turned on and off by users. This suggests that the feature will be rolled out on the backend of WhatsApp, and users will not be required to do anything, at least according to current information. It’s also unclear when WhatsApp will fully implement this backend modification because it’s a backend update. In some ways, it’s a little perplexing for users right now. So don’t bother changing anything in WhatsApp’s settings right now.
So, What Do These Privacy Safeguards Entail?
Fundamentally, a WhatsApp user’s last seen and online actions can be tracked via a variety of third-party apps. Considering the fact that the “Nobody” privacy option is turned on. These apps not only track your movements but also document them for anyone who wants to keep an eye on you. WhatsApp’s new function is a godsend for stalkers like these.
Such third-party apps will never be able to figure out when you last read texts or when you were online unless they are in your contact list or have an active chat with you. The email from customer service, on the other hand, says nothing about the “Everyone” privacy setting or whether turning it on will also obscure a user’s last seen and online status.
Anyway, according to the report, if you’ve chatted with an account but can’t see their last seen status, it’s because they’ve enabled the “My Contacts Except” privacy setting, which is only available to some WhatsApp beta users on Android and iOS. The new privacy safeguards, on the other hand, will have no effect on the rest of the population. As a result, your previous conversations with contacts and businesses will be unaffected.
In all the other WhatsApp news, the appearance of the waveforms for voice messages was recently observed being tested. The new style will complement the purpose of the feature, and it will also allow users to determine whether they should listen to the message on a speaker or through earphones. This feature is still under beta testing, so it will be some time before it becomes available to everyone on WhatsApp.