WhatsApp is working on a new privacy feature that will allow users to better control who can and cannot see their “last seen” status.
As WABetaInfo reports, WhatsApp is currently testing the possibility of giving all of a user’s contacts access to their “Last Online” status while preventing certain contacts from seeing it at all. writes the blog:
WhatsApp “Last Online” status gets new option
A few years ago, WhatsApp introduced 3 privacy settings: Last Seen, Profile Picture and About. These settings allow you to decide who can see this data. To manage these privacy settings, WhatsApp introduced 3 options: Everyone, My Contacts, Nobody. This means that if you didn't want a specific contact to see your Last Seen, you had to set the Last Seen privacy setting to No One. Today, WhatsApp is finally working on introducing another option called My Contacts Except... so users can finally enable and disable their status for specific contacts!
This change will certainly please some users who only want to share their "last seen" status with certain people. Since the new feature is currently being tested, it is not known when it will finally be made available to all users. (Photo by Denys Prykhodov / Bigstockphoto)
