New features for WhatsApp: Leave groups silently and block screenshots
9.8.2022
Translation: machine translated
WhatsApp has announced three new features to protect your privacy. They are online status, screenshots of pictures and leaving groups silently.
Advanced control over online status in WhatsApp is ready. After the update, you can set who sees the "Last online" timestamp. In addition to the previous options "Everyone" and "No one", you can now also choose "My contacts" and "My contacts except ...". WhatsApp communicates this in a blog post.
No more screenshots for photos with one-time view
The one-time view of photos has been around in WhatsApp since August 2021. With it, you can choose that the recipient is only allowed to view a sent picture once. There was a catch: screenshots could be taken of the photos in the one-time view. Soon you will be able to block these. Then people will really only be able to see the picture once.
Recently, WhatsApp has extended chat groups to a maximum of 512 people. So that not everyone sees you leaving a group, you can soon do it silently. Then only the admins will see that you have left.
Silent leaving of groups as well as the new options for online status should be available in the course of August. WhatsApp is still testing the screenshot blocks. They are expected to follow "shortly".
Jan Johannsen
Content Development Editor
jan.johannsen@galaxus.deWhen I was but a young student, I'd sit in my friend's living room with all my classmates and play on his SuperNES. Since then I've had the opportunity to test out all the newest technology for you. I've done reviews at Curved, Computer Bild and Netzwelt, and have now arrived at Galaxus.de.