WhatsApp is working on ‘My contacts except’ profile picture privacy feature
WhatsApp is developing the “My contacts except” privacy option for the users. Initially, it was announced for iOS and later confirmed for the Android device. Now, the team is working on the same feature for Profile Picture privacy settings.
For those who don’t know, the new options were previously announced for the ‘Last Seen’ settings. Now, when the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.21.21.2 confirms this function for the profile setting, the users will be able to hide their profile from some individuals in their contact list.
Below you can check the preview image-
(Image Credits: WABetaInfo)
My Contact Except:
Users who often change the WhatsApp Status privacy settings are familiar with this feature. It allows them to hide their activity, which they select from the contact list. To be more precise, this function hides the user’s activity for the selected contacts.
Furthermore, this feature is already available for the WhatsApp Status and Groups. Now, the WhatsApp team also confirmed it for the profile picture after the last seen. To access this function
- Open WhatsApp
- Select More and click on Setting
- Choose the first option- Account
- Now tap on Privacy
- From here, you can set privacy for Last see, Profile, About, Status, Groups, etc
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Availability:
The feature is still in the development process but will rollout for both platforms- Android and iOS soon. Once it’s available, we’ll let you know, until then stay connected with us.
More About WhatsApp:
On October 4, Facebook-owned WhatsApp, and Instagram servers were down, the platforms were not giving access to the users. It creates a huge disruption as all three social media platforms have an enormous active user-base worldwide. However, these services are now back online and working the same as previously.
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January 2023 brought in new opportunities for WhatsApp to expand further among Android users and the Meta-owned chat platform is releasing new beta builds to users interestest in new features.
It’s widely used on Android and iOS platforms, but for the time being, we’ll only focus on Android and keep you posted with the latest functionality being tested for WhatsApp users.
Note that the mentioned features may change or delay production and the only purpose is to anticipate the upcoming ones. Also, you can access them early by signing up for the WhatsApp beta build.
Below you can check the January 2023 WhatsApp beta rollout list. To be mentioned inputs are taken from Wabetainfo.
January 26, 2023:
- WhatsApp beta version 2.23.3.4 for Android showcase upcoming text editor for drawing tool improvements (read more).
January 25, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.3.3 brings support for haptic feedback whever you react to a message on mobile device.
January 20, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.2.11 beta for Android users brings will let them change the photo quality between, automatic, best quality and data saver. There cold be more option added or removed from this later on.
January 19, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.2.10 for Andriod rolling out for public users with block shortcut feature.
January 18, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.2.8 beta for Android allows you to share a voice note as a status update with a certain users that are allowed to see your status.
January 14, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.2.6/7 would let you transfer chat history to a new phone without using the cloud storage.
January 12, 2023:
- WhatsApp version 2.23.2.4 is in work with a feature to Block to quickly block contacts. In addition, there’s 2.23.2.4 version that shown block feature directly into the notifications.
January 11, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.2.3 noted with a new user interface for loading your chat.
January 10, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.2.2 testing a an alert to inform you about the feature to share caption along with the media.
January 6, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.1.27 beta test reveals a feature called Report, which would allow you to report any WhatsApp status, as it violates or offends you.
January 5, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.1.25/26 version revealed that the company is working on a chat transfer feature called move chats to Android or iOS. This feature will allow users to transfer their chat to each platform.
January 4, 2023:
- WhatsApp 2.23.1.24 beta version shows that the chat app will bring the bookmark icon to the disappearing message that has temporarily been saved, meaning they will not be automatically deleted from the chat and everyone in the conversation.
WhatsApp is releasing a new beta version for Android users that brings a shortcut feature to disappearing messages. As the term suggests, it will let users prioritize their chats and messages in the application.
According to the latest info, the unique shortcut feature for disappearing messages is rolling out with the 2.22.25.11 build version. Being a beta iteration, it is only available to a handful of consumers at the moment.
Earlier this month, the company created a separate section for disappearing messages. Eventually, this addition helped the users to operate the corresponding messages and chats effectively in the app.
Besides, it enabled the users to pin up the old and new chats in the disappearing section. As a result, it becomes easy to sort and organize the main chats and phone numbers as per convenience.
Now to make the feature more accessible, WhatsApp is adding a new disappearing messages shortcut for Android users. This feature will reside in the Manage Storage section with the “tools to save space” label. Further, it is capable to control storage as well as maintain privacy in the chats.
How the shortcut feature is useful?
In case you are thinking about how the feature will help with storage management – the shortcut tool can delete the media content automatically after reaching a specific time limit.
You can set the time limit accordingly under the privacy section or in the chat info. In terms of disappearing texts, the feature will inspect your priority and will shift the “more important chats” over to other numbers. Thus, the respective feature is quite interesting to use.
Availability of the Shortcut feature
As of now, the feature is only available to a limited amount of Android users. However, the company will push off the shortcut element to more consumers with the upcoming updates.
Meanwhile, users can also get this beta feature along with the following build versions:
- WhatsApp 2.22.24.27
- WhatsApp 2.22.25.8
- WhatsApp 2.22.25.10
So WhatsApp Android users, keep installing the latest builds to experience new and amazing pinches of the app.
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Today, WhatsApp went down and remained inaccessible for over 2 hours before it was fixed. App users around the world reported an outage of services that blocked the user interface of the Meta on the chatting application.
According to the users, the app was showing issues in accessing the app randomly, under which, they cannot read or send new messages. Furthermore, there’s no error screen that remained persistent on the app with the label ‘connecting’ to the server.
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A spokesperson said: “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible.”
According to Downdetector, users began reporting this issue before 8 am on Tuesday, while over 12,000 reports appeared on the website by 8.30 am. That’s a massive number and it’s quite disturbing for the users.
Restored:
However, Meta finally resolved this issue and resumed services after over 2 hours of blackout on WhatsApp.
On the other hand, Meta nor WhatsApp has announced the reason behind this massive outage in services or given any official statement.
WhatsApp is one of the largest chat messaging apps with over a billion users globally. However, such a shortage could be a reason for server failure, which could happen occasionally.