WhatsApp now lets you hide your profile picture and ‘Last seen’ status from specific people – TechCrunch

WhatsApp announced this week that it’s rolling out the power for customers to pick who from their contact listing can see their profile photograph, about and “Final seen” standing. Previous to the official launch, the brand new privateness setting was obtainable to pick customers as a part of a restricted beta.

Up till now, customers had three privateness choices to select from to determine who may see their profile photograph, about and Final seen standing. The choices have been: everybody, my contacts and no one. Now, there’s a fourth possibility titled “My contacts besides…” With this new possibility, you possibly can exclude particular folks in your contacts from seeing your profile photograph, about and Final seen standing. It’s price noting that for those who select to cover your Final seen standing from others, you received’t be capable to see theirs both.

The brand new privateness possibility is now rolling out to all iPhone and Android customers across the globe. You possibly can entry them by navigating to the privateness part in your account settings.

WhatsApp introduced this week that it’s additionally rolling out new options for group calls. Most notably, the app now permits you to mute or message particular folks on a name. The app has additionally added a brand new useful indicator to make it simpler for customers to see when extra folks be part of massive calls.

The launch of those new options comes as WhatsApp introduced earlier this week that it was including the power for customers to switch their dialog chat historical past, pictures, movies and voice messages from Android to iPhone through Apple’s Transfer to iOS app. Previous to this growth, customers solely had the choice to switch chats from iPhone to Android. The flexibility to switch WhatsApp knowledge from Android to iPhone is rolling out now in beta.

Though it’s been simple to switch WhatsApp knowledge from one iPhone to a different, or from one Android to a different, customers have needed to discover tough workarounds when shifting from Android to iPhone. The brand new software will remedy this downside and make it loads simpler to make the change.