

Currently, the app shows when you are online to anyone who can view your profile within the app. WhatsApp will also soon let you hide your active online status from specific people, and when enabled the app will not show those selected the exact moments you are available within the app. This could be especially useful for larger group chats - for instance, ones that are themed around an event or a hyperactive chat that you just don't find that engaging anymore. The Meta-owned company says it will add the ability to leave groups silently, meaning that administrators will still get an alert but everyone else in a group chat will not. WhatsApp announced three new privacy features Tuesday, one of which will let you leave a group chat without alerting the entire group. WhatsApp's new features are being announced roughly a month before Apple's iMessage is expected to bring iOS 16 to the masses, the latter adding message editing and unsending. The privacy features will add better ways to control your visibility in conversations, and keep prying eyes away from how often you are checking in on the app. WhatsApp is adding privacy features that let you quietly leave group chats, hide your online status and block others from taking screenshots of photos meant to be viewed one time.
