New options now give you more control over your data. Source: Pixabay
Whatsapp got new privacy settings that give you more control over your status, your profile photo and the Last seen
– Give ad. With the update, you can control who sees these things by excluding certain people or contacts.
The feature was announced via the Whatsapp account on Twitter. The new options are available immediately if you have the latest Whatsapp version installed on your smartphone. We could already access the functions on our smartphones. You can see the whole tweet here:
link to Twitter content
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Here’s how to find the options
To find the new options, tap the three dots at the top and click settings
Accountand then
privacy. In this menu you will find the new settings under the following items:
- Last online
- profile pic
- Info
- Status
For each of these points you can now determine who can see them or not. You always have the option to show them to everyone, to nobody, or only to your contacts. In a new menu item you can now also exclude contacts who are not allowed to see the data. It then looks like this:
This is what the new settings look like. Source: Kay Nordenbrock
More data protection for users
Meta, the company that owns Whatsapp, gives you more control over the data you store in Messenger. This way you can hide them from certain people who you don’t want to show, for example, your profile picture or who shouldn’t see when you were last online in the app.
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You can find more information about data security on Whatsapp and information about the new feature on this info page of the messenger. If you accidentally sent a message that shouldn’t get out like this, you can edit it in the future instead of deleting it and typing a new one:
Change sent Whatsapp messages? Edit function will soon make it possible
Are you satisfied with WhatsApp’s data protection features so far? Are you going to hide some of the data from certain people? Please let us know.
