In order to retain its users and attract new ones, a service must constantly evolve. This involves fixing its bugs and other security flaws and offering foolproof reliability, of course, but also and most importantly offering new features. For platforms like WhatsApp, it’s a continuous cycle of testing, implementation, more and less important iterations. An update was recently released which introduced several very interesting new features.
WhatsApp is full of new features
With the latest WhatsApp update, available to everyone for a few days, it is in particular possible to leave a talk group without the other participants knowing. Practical, right?
Already in August, the CEO of Meta, owner of WhatsApp, announced the imminent arrival of several new features in a message posted on Facebook: “New privacy features coming to WhatsApp: exit group chats without notifying everyone, control who can see when you are online and block screenshots from seeing messages ”, we could read in particular on the publication in question.
And the multi-billionaire to reassure about the protection of users and their communications: “We will continue to build new ways to protect your messages and keep them private and as safe as face-to-face conversations.”
Now you can leave a group without others knowing
If this update offers nothing in terms of security, strictly speaking, the new built-in features will please users. Among other novelties, it becomes possible to “react to messages with emojis”, “make video calls to 32 people” and “hide your last hour of presence on the application from certain people”.
It is also said that users of the platform will soon have up to 2 days to pick up a message sent against just an hour at the moment.
As usual, if you don’t see these new features yet, that’s completely normal. Deployments of this size are typically done in stages. It will take several weeks for all users and devices to be eligible. A bit of patience.
