Spy apps have a hard time here: WhatsApp is a new feature that ensures more privacy for users
Created: 12/15/2021, 01:51 PM
By: Leyla Yildiz
WhatsApp introduces something new.
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With an innovation, WhatsApp would like to offer its users more privacy in the future.
This is made possible by a feature that is soon to be rolled out for everyone.
Munich - The messenger service WhatsApp now wants to guarantee its users more privacy.
To this end, those responsible have introduced a new feature that in future will make it impossible for third-party apps to be able to read the “last online” status of the users.
This is then only possible for your own contacts.
WhatsApp innovation for more privacy: "Last online" status is switched off
According to
wabetainfo
, non-contacts should no longer have any insight into the user behavior of the respective user.
Until now, users had to actively deactivate this function themselves.
The portal cites third-party apps as the reason, which are available both in the Apple App Store and in the Google Play Store for Android.
You are able to read out and log the "last online" status.
For example, sleeping or working times can be read, as
reported by
chip.de.
WhatsApp introduces a new feature: it should come soon for all users
From now on, WhatsApp users must have had contact with each other in order to see this status.
The feature will be part of the basic setting in the future, which is why it must be actively switched on again by users who would like to have the status displayed.
According to
chip.de, the
innovation should
come soon - for everyone.
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