WhatsApp for iOS is working on another feature that its users have long requested: the ability to hide online status from everyone. This feature will come in a future update and is already under development. Here is a preview of this feature and what to expect.
As WABetaInfo detected, WhatsApp will soon allow you to hide your online status from everyone. From now on, users can choose to show their “Latest Views” information to contacts, some people, or no one. For a future version of the app, WhatsApp will allow users to follow an approach similar to that of online switching.
The post explains how this feature will work:
It will be possible to configure who can see when we are online directly within our last configuration view thanks to two new options: “All” and “Same as last time”. For example, if you choose “My Contacts” for “Last Views” and “Like Last Viewed” for “Online,” it means that non-contacts won’t be able to see when you’re online. .
This new privacy feature is being developed at the same time that WhatsApp is also preparing another important feature, the ability to edit a message. It’s been a long time since the app started allowing users to delete messages, but it never offered the ability to edit them, which is finally changing in a future update.
The ability to edit and delete messages also comes to another beloved messaging app: iMessage with iOS 16. Although it generated some controversy, being able to edit and delete a message can be very useful when you type a wrong word or send information incorrect. to a person in a chat.
Last but not least, WABetaInfo reports that WhatsApp is finally preparing a new version of reacting to messages. According to the post, WhatsApp is already implementing in public beta testers the ability to react to a message with any emoji, just as Instagram does in its direct messaging feature.
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