WhatsApp: you will be able to go incognito even more – Frandroid

WhatsApp is rolling out new privacy measures that hide your “online” status from contacts you’ve never chatted with. This feature is enabled by default for all users.

You will now be more discreet about WhatsApp. The messaging service is indeed rolling out a new feature that improves its privacy measures. The idea is simple: by default, it will now be impossible to see your status for contacts with whom you have never chatted, and vice versa.

Spotted by the indefatigable WABetaInfo, this novelty has been confirmed by WhatsApp support to a Twitter user. This applies to both iOS and Android devices, which here benefit from a small additional layer of security. Because at first glance innocuous, this small change nevertheless makes a lot of sense.

Cut the rug out from under certain third-party apps

As explained Android Police, many third-party applications present on the blinds applications allow you to monitor the status of WhatsApp users. These applications can especially know if you are connected, without even having started a discussion with you.

Source: Alexander Shatov

In trackant this type of activity, these software obtain a series of information related to your user behavior, without the slightest consent. Here, WhatsApp is pulling the rug out from under them, since it will now be impossible for them to determine if you are online. By default, your account will tell them to be “offline”.

No big upheaval

Granted, this shouldn’t mess up your user experience, but WhatsApp tends to protect you better here.

Lately, the platform has multiplied the small novelties. We can for example cite the possibility of create your own stickers on the web version service, several tests of instant cryptocurrency payments directly in the application or automatic deletion of messages in all of your individual conversations.

Initially reserved for Samsung products, WhatsApp history transfer from iPhone to Android is now available on all Android devices.
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