The iOS WhatsApp beta allows you to hide the ‘Last Seen’ status from selected contacts.
The ‘Last Seen’ tag on WhatsApp tells you when a contact was last active on the app, which is a useful feature.
There is a good chance that if you contact someone at 7:30 in the morning, they won’t respond until the next day. The ability to determine whether it is socially acceptable to communicate someone in another nation at a certain moment without having to know their exact time zone is another benefit of using this tool.
In addition, if they have Read Receipts turned off, it’s a good method to determine whether your crucial communication has been noticed and disregarded, or if they simply haven’t read it yet.
It’s presently not very flexible if you want to share your WhatsApp use trends with the rest of the globe. For the time being, you have the option of making your ‘Last Seen’ status visible only to those you’ve already established contact with.
This will change in the newest iOS beta version of WhatsApp — 22.9.0.70 — which is now available through TestFlight and is expected to be rolled out to all users at some point. The “Last Seen” portion of the app now includes a new “My Contacts Except…” option, as first reported by WABetaInfo. As a result, you may select which contacts you don’t want to be able to see again.
Despite the fact that certain iPhone beta testers may now access it, this isn’t only for iOS users. Changes were made to Android beta 2.22.8.9 some time ago, and this update is basically putting the iOS version into the same ballpark.
Intriguingly, the new version of the app lets you conceal your profile picture and other personal data from people you’ve added as contacts. In my opinion, this doesn’t do much since your connections are likely to have some idea of who you are and your appearance. Read Receipts might be a better application for this, but it’s still a binary decision for everyone: either on or off.
This new privacy feature is a welcome addition, and it’s encouraging to see Meta working on changes like this with its larger goal of making WhatsApp more community-oriented. WhatsApp announced five major improvements to group conversations last week, including the addition of emoji answers and a larger maximum transfer size.