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WhatsApp New Feature Blocks Third-Party Apps From Seeing Online Details

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Meta-owned WhatsApp has brought in a new privacy update to prevent unknown contacts from seeing a user’s last seen and online status. This new feature has reportedly been rolled out for both Android and iOS-enabled devices.

As per a report by WABetaInfo, some third-party apps from Google Play Store on Android and Apple App Store on iOS can access data from the app to log ‘online’ status time and ‘Last Seen’ time. WhatsApp has now introduced some safeguards to stop such apps from accessing such data. A

After this latest improvements to protect users, WhatsApp doesn’t show up the last seen and the online status if you have never chatted with another WhatsApp account. Since those third-party apps don’t have an active chat with you, they cannot see when you are online,- WABetaInfo noted.

In addition, WhatsApp is also working on a feature that will enable users to restrict certain information, including their ‘Last Seen’ and profile pictures from specific contacts.

WhatsApp recently announced that its users will now have the option to turn on disappearing messages by default for all new chats.

The meta-owned platform said that it is adding two new durations for disappearing messages: 24 hours and 90 days, as well as the existing option of 7 days.

“When enabled, all new one-on-one chats you or another person start will be set to disappear at your chosen duration, and we’ve added a new option when creating a group chat that lets you turn it on for groups you create,” WhatsApp said in a statement.

The company added this new feature is optional and does not change or delete any of your existing chats.

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