A few months ago, WaBetaInfo discovered that WhatsApp is preparing more privacy options, so that you can hide certain data in your profile from specific people on your contact list. Now this advanced setting of My contacts, except … is starting to go live for the first time for users.
Concretely, users of WhatsApp version 2.21.23.14 beta who already have the function activated will be able to manually choose from among their contacts the people who will not see their last login time, profile picture or info
You yes, you no
WhatsApp’s privacy options let you choose who can see your last login time, profile picture and info, text status. Now the options available treat all contacts equally, with no exceptions such as whitelists or blacklists. The only exception are the new states.
In the rest, the elective options were three years: Everyone, my contacts or no one. We knew that WhatsApp had been laying the groundwork for some time to add a fourth option: My contacts, except …
With My contacts, except … you can hide your photo from specific people, while keeping it visible to the rest of your contacts. The only way you had to do this before was to choose “My Contacts” and remove that person from your contact list. The same applies to Info, specifies the text.
Data that behaves slightly differently are the time of last connection. If you choose My contacts, except and hide a specific person’s online time, you won’t be able to see their last online time either. This does not happen with the profile picture or the information. You can hide it from someone and still see theirs.
The rollout of the function begins, which as always will start tentatively in the beta of WhatsApp and eventually reach everyone later. A curiosity to keep in mind is that the contacts that you include in the blacklist of a specific data they will keep seeing you until the feature is available also on their mobiles.
Via | WaBetaInfo