WhatsApp is testing a feature that lets you quietly leave groups

Should you select to depart a WhatsApp group that has turn into more and more noisy or irrelevant, the app will publish a notification that anyone can see in-chat. It is most likely not an enormous deal in most cases… except it is a group with relations or pals who’re inclined to ask why you’d left. In response to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is engaged on an upcoming characteristic that might forestall awkward confrontations by letting you exit teams with out posting a notification all people may see. 

To notice, the app will nonetheless notify the group admins that you simply’re leaving when the characteristic turns into out there, however all people else would not know except you inform them. WABetaInfo first talked concerning the characteristic when Meta mentioned experimenting with Communities, which individuals can use to mix separate group chats “underneath one umbrella with a construction that works for them,” again in April. Now, the publication has obtained a screenshot of WhatsApp beta on desktop that reveals an exit immediate that reads: “Solely you and group admins will probably be notified that you simply left the group.” Hopefully, the characteristic may also roll out for WhatsApp on cell when it turns into out there on desktop. 

And in case you don’t need particular contacts so as to add you again or so as to add you into one other group chat with them, do not forget you could all the time block them from doing so. Beneath your Privateness settings in Account, you may select the individuals who can add you to teams, with the choices being “Everybody,” “My Contacts” and “My contacts besides…” the folks you exclude.