You realize the sensation: A pal invited you right into a WhatsApp group for individuals who love knitting and hip hop and now you are kinda sick of the 2Pac knitting memes. You resolve to go away the group, however WhatsApp notifies everybody of your betrayal. Messages of disappointment are flooding in. That Dr. Dre sweater you had hoped for is not coming any time quickly.

Quickly, nevertheless, all this can change. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that WhatsApp is engaged on a characteristic that may allow you to silently go away a bunch. In keeping with The Guardian, group directors will get notified, so your group exits will not be completely secret, however it’s higher than nothing.

It is not the one new characteristic that is coming. WhatsApp can even block taking screenshots of “view as soon as” messages, a characteristic nicked from Snapchat, the pioneer of ephemeral messaging. As all the time, remember that this doesn’t assure privateness, because the individual on the opposite finish can all the time take a photograph of the telephone’s show.

Lastly, Zuckerberg confirmed a characteristic we noticed being examined in July, permitting customers to cover their on-line standing. This implies different customers will be unable to see whenever you had been final utilizing the app.

“We’ll preserve constructing new methods to guard your messages and preserve them as non-public and safe as face-to-face conversations,” Zuckerberg stated within the publish.

In keeping with The Verge, the silent group exit and hidden on-line standing are coming this month, whereas screenshot prevention is coming “quickly.”

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