WhatsApp is working on a new function that will make it a lot easier for users of the messenger.
And then when you just want to have some peace and quiet.
Mountain View / Munich - Whoever uses the WhatsApp messenger service is confronted with new messages fairly regularly.
Some are important, but some are less and all in all they just take time.
So it can take a while before you are up to date with reading various messages.
However, the US company is continuously working on further developments that on the one hand should give users more options, but on the other hand also make them easier to use.
WhatsApp: New Logout function should enable a break from the messenger service
Every now and then, however, you just want to have some peace and quiet - and that also applies to WhatsApp: for example while working, on vacation, or through occasional digital abstinence.
Apparently, the popular provider is planning to introduce an innovation that will make such undertakings easier in the future:
In the future, it should be possible to simply log out of WhatsApp so that you are not always available.
The option that has been missing so far is unusual anyway: the logout function has long been commonplace on social networks such as the platform of the parent company Facebook.
As the website
WABetaInfo
now describes, the WhatsApp developers have already pushed ahead with the corresponding programming; it will be available for both Android devices and Apple iOS.
WhatsApp abstinence?
There are already ways to have peace and quiet
When exactly users can expect this is still unclear.
Nevertheless, a logout function on WhatsApp does not mean that it is currently impossible to take a break.
Instead, there are several ways in which you can temporarily disengage from the messenger service:
Don't pick up your smartphone regularly (of course, that's not easy).
Mute WhatsApp groups (or individual chats).
Smartphone settings: Temporarily deactivate WhatsApp or "force quit".
Turn off the often annoying pop-up notifications.
Uninstalling the app is a "radical" step. For this, however, you should create a backup for important chat histories and media files.
If you then want to log in to WhatsApp again, the software must be reinstalled.
A few years ago, a man near Munich did not read a WhatsApp message for two years.
He talked to us about getting rid of the virtual news whirlpool.
(PF)
