What you always wanted! WhatsApp will allow you to hide your status, the last connection, your profile picture and the information “about” only for some specific contacts, feel free to share what you want with all your contacts except … We tell you about the new feature in development.
WhatsApp is working on a new feature so you can choose specific contacts to whom you want to limit access to your information. The tool under development consists of sharing with “My contacts except …”
WhatsApp is updating its privacy settings by allowing users to disable their status, last seen, profile picture and “about” updates for specific contacts.
Currently, to share in any of these sections options are: Everyone, My Contacts, or Nobody, so that any or all of your contacts can see your updates, or no one can.
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These options have long limited users, but it seems that WhatsApp he has listened to requests and suggestions. So that we can limit access to specific contacts. This will allow you disable your status, your last connection, profile picture and “about” for specific contacts.
By being able to choose who not to share certain content with, you will no longer have to worry because one of your relatives is offended, your boss is surprised, the minors see something inappropriate or one of your contacts finds out about something that does not concern him.
In a report, WABetaInfo says that WhatsApp you are working on your updated privacy settings with “My contacts except …” for beta versions of WhatsApp for iOS and Android.
WABetaInfo has shared a screenshot showing the new option for WhatsApp for iOS; but everything indicates that it will also be available to users of Android.
According to reports, WhatsApp is internally testing its updated privacy settings right now, and will be available to beta testers in the next update. But the official details about the tests and when it will reach the stable version for all users have not been revealed yet.