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WhatsApp, the Meta-owned popular messaging app, is working toward expanding its user privacy by working on a new feature that will give users the ability to hide their online status from everyone. It is expected to be released in the future update of the app for Android, iOS, and Desktop users. According to a report from WABetaInfo, which tracks all the latest developments related to WhatsApp, the messaging platform is apparently testing an update for the Last Seen and Online Status. This feature will allow users to decide who can see them online while they are using the messaging app. Currently, WhatsApp users can only hide their Last Seen everyone, contacts, or specific contacts. In its report, WABetaInfo stated that a lot of WhatsApp users over the years requested to be able to hide their online status in stealth mode for various reasons. For example, some users want to use the messaging app without being disturbed by other people, or they feel stalked by someone. “We know a lot of people want this feature, so we also created a concept to disable the online status last year, that’s a good way to share feedback with WhatsApp,” WABetaInfo said in the report. As seen…

WhatsApp users are being urged to activate an important new setting.It could save you from major embarrassment down the line. Earlier this year, WhatsApp added a new feature called Disappearing Messages. These are texts that automatically self-destruct after a certain period of time. Now top TikTok tech star @tatechtips is flagged how to turn the feature on for his viewers – earning nearly 8,000 likes on the app. Thankfully it’s extremely easy to activate. How to send WhatsApp disappearing messages So how to do you activate WhatsApp disappearing messages today?Open your app on mobile and then go into Settings > Account > Privacy. Look for Disappearing Messages and then set the toggle to the On position. Then choose a time period for messages to disappear – 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days. A message will appear in the chat confirming that Disappearing Messages has been turned on. To enable it on an existing chat, you need to archive and then unarchive it first. You can also enable Disappearing Messages on specific chats by tapping into the individual settings of a WhatsApp contact. The system isn’t fool-proof, of course. If someone screenshots or records your chat, there’s no way to remove that content from their phone using…

Instant messaging app WhatsApp is reportedly working on several new features that will make the experience of its users smoother and better.  WhatsApp is Working on Removing Your Online Status The Meta-owned messaging app is working on a feature that will hide your online status. The said feature will be available for a future app update, according to WABetaInfo, a website that tracks the newest WhatsApp updates.  The website also shared a screenshot of the upcoming feature of the WhatsApp beta for iOS. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp decided to develop the feature after its users had been requesting it for years.  The feature will be available in the app's Privacy Settings. However, WhatsApp did not reveal when the feature would be available on the app.  According to 9to5Mac, once the feature is available, it allows users to hide the "Online" status. Expect there will be new options like "Everyone," and "Same as Last Seen." Also Read: WhatsApp vs. WeChat vs. Line: The Best Messaging App To Download  If a user chooses "My Contacts" for "Last Seen" and "Same as Last Seen" for "online," it means that those who are not in your contacts will not be able to see when you're available online.  In…

WhatsApp has announced the launch of the WhatsAppreneurs campaign, profiling small entrepreneurs from Africa who are using the WhatsApp Business app to grow their business and  reach more customers.  The campaign will highlight the stories of Small and Medium Business owners in Africa, and help them and others like them learn more about business growth opportunities available with the WhatsApp Business app through a virtual educational webinar.  Commenting on the launch of the WhatsAppreneurs campaign, Balkissa Ide Siddo, Public Policy Director for Africa said “Across Africa, small and medium business owners are using the WhatsApp Business app  to develop their business, showcase their products, close sales, and connect with their customers. The WhatsApp Business app provides a tool to help businesses thrive in their markets, reach more customers, and grow their businesses consistently. We are delighted to be a part of the success stories of small businesses who are so important to communities across Africa.” As SMB’s represent a sizable percentage of the economic population demonstrating great potential for growth, opportunity creation, and overcoming poverty post-pandemic, there is a need to provide support through digital tools to help them scale.  The WhatsAppreneur campaign serves the purpose of providing the resources…

WhatsApp, as of now, gives users a time duration of one hour, eight minutes and 16 seconds from the time that they have shared a message to delete it. But that is about to change as the Meta-owned messaging is reportedly working on increasing this limit to over two days. Also Read - WhatsApp says it banned over 19 lakh accounts in India in May 2022 According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has started rolling out new time limit to select users who are using the latest version of WhatsApp beta for Android app. As a part of the changes, the company is planning to increase the time limit to delete a message from one hour, eight minutes and 16 seconds to two days and 12 hours. Also Read - How to use Instagram to share posts with other social media channels The blog site said that the Meta-owned has started rolling this feature to select beta tester. It is expected to be available to more beta users in the coming days. “We can also confirm that the new time limit is really 2 days and 12 hours, the same one that was planned during the development of the…

Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said that it banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of May in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had banned over 16.6 lakh bad accounts in India in April. The company also received 528 grievance reports in May within the country, and the accounts "actioned" were 24. In April, WhatsApp received 844 grievance reports within the country, and the accounts "actioned" were 123. "Over the years, we have consistently invested in Artificial Intelligence and other state of the art technology, data scientists and experts, and in processes, in order to keep our users safe on our platform," a WhatsApp spokesperson said in a statement. "This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp's own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform," the spokesperson added. Published in accordance with Rule 4(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, the report contains information on actions taken by WhatsApp in response to grievances received from users in India via the grievance mechanisms and accounts actioned in India through its prevention and detection…

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The WhatsApp Beta UWP app has a received a new update in version 2.2225.2.0 that adds a modern context menu for selected text in chats. This will allow users to do some basic text formatting when composing messages to contacts, with options such as Italics, Bold, Strikethrough, and even formatted font for such things where it is relevant, like sharing code. Thanks to Microsofters on Twitter who spotted this update, you can see above in our before/after images the difference between the context menus in the chat window between version 2.2225.2.0 and the previous version. The context menu can also be collapsed so that the Copy, Cut, Paste, Undo and Select All options are all hidden, and this is remembered between chat sessions. Unfortunately, since both Facebook Meta, (who owns WhatsApp) and Microsoft does not provide release notes or a history, it is unclear what else was changed with this latest update. But you can grab it right now from the Microsoft Store here. Some of the exciting features the Meta-owned company recently added include message reactions, sending voice notes, and limited one-time view for media shares, as well as emoji shortcuts, dark mode support, the ability to filter and…

Three Metropolitan police officers exchanged racist messages on a Whatsapp group, including a comparison between Meghan Markle and a g*******, a tribunal heard.PC Sukhdev Jeer and PC Paul Hefford, along with former officer Richard Hammond, also failed to challenge and/or report the other members of the group after receiving the offensive messages, it is claimed.The allegations amount to gross misconduct, which will result in the officers being sacked if the allegations are proven. Giving an idea of the kind of messages shared, Vishal Misra of the Metropolitan police said: “All of the content in the log is submitted to be explicitly racist, homophobic, sexist, ableist and Islamaphobic.” He added: “All of the respondents failed to challenge one another with regards to the content being posted.” The panel heard that PC Jeer posted an image of a young boy in a hoodie captioned as a “monkey in the jungle” and superimposed with an image of a penis.The force has been placed on special measures (PA)Vishal Misra quizzed PC Jeer about a meme that showed the image of a “g*******” toy that was captioned: “A sneak preview at Meghan’s wedding dress.”Responding to this, PC Jeer said he did not find this funny…

The tool could help maintain user privacy and become a useful form of self-expression WhatsApp is slowly yet steadily expanding the frontier of what its users can do with emoji. It has certainly had to make up ground against other messaging apps with emoji stickers and animated emoji, but it's all progress nonetheless. We're now learning about another feature in the pipeline that's playing catch-up to something Apple and Samsung were all over years ago. WABetaInfo has picked up on plans to let users switch to a custom avatar — perhaps in the style of Memoji or Bitmoji — during video calls. This means that people will be able to utilize alternative avatars instead of using their straight camera vision or their profile picture during a call. The feature has been in development since March. Unfortunately, we don't see much about the avatars themselves here — this screenshot simply shows the button the user will need to press to switch to their avatar. The button simply doesn't work at the moment. Animated emoji-based avatars are definitely an improvement to WhatsApp's video call experience whether it's for privacy's sake or just another way to express one's self. The biggest question here…