The social networking space has been subject to fluid developments of recent. WhatsApp may be implementing another modification on its platform that will restrict access to a user’s Last Seen status. WhatsApp has kicked off some modifications, as indicated in its latest developer version of the app on iOS.
The latest beta release of WhatsApp is on iOS, and it contains an option that will allow the user to limit specific contacts from seeing their Last Seen status. The Last Seen status provides information to determine whether a message sent from another contact has been viewed by the recipient. You can use it to find out whether a contact may have possibly read your message. It is currently possible to disable the feature completely, otherwise, it limits access to only persons on your contact list. The new measure will enable users to pick out specific contacts and prevent them from seeing their Last Seen status.
The new option present in WhatsApp iOS beta version 22.9.0.70 is tagged My Contacts Except, under the Last Seen button on the Privacy settings. The flipside of this new option is that you can also not see the Last Seen information of the individuals in your exception list. There are a few other privacy and general modification that will be implemented in the latest update of the app. This includes more granular privacy controls relating to profile photos and the about section.
Beta testing for the new update of WhatsApp is believed to have commenced both on Android and iOS. This could indicate that the working version of the app could be available in the shortest time. WhatsApp has not made any new details available on these features at this time.
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