Without compromising on your privacy, the popular messaging application ‘WhatsApp’ is continuously working on improvising its features in order to curb the crime rate that has increased over false alarms, rumors forwarded on Whatsapp.
The messaging app has now implemented a group privacy setting for users in India which enables you to choose who can add you to a particular group, with the option of choose ‘nobody’.
Now with this small improvement in the privacy setting, this feature is available for both Android as well as iOS devices.
According to a report published in the WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has added a new blacklist option in the privacy settings.
The user can now verify the privacy settings of your group, in the ‘Who can add me to groups’ settings, in addition to Everyone and My contacts, with a third option as well called ‘My Contacts Except’ similar to that of our stories privacy feature .
This enables us to allow or reject a user from adding us into a group as the new option will allow you to select the users that must obtain approval before adding you to a group.
You will also have to add additional contacts to the list manually every time you add a new contact.
On the other hand, the My Contacts option, will allow even the newly added contact in your address book to add it to groups, and the Everyone option will not add any restrictions while the Nobody option has been removed from ‘Who can add me to groups’ settings.
You can see this setting by going to WhatsApp Settings > Account > Privacy > Groups.
The messaging app has also begun to implement the function of playing consecutive voice memos on WhatsApp Web.
With the new feature, you no longer have to press every voice message in group chat to listen to it. Instead, when you receive multiple voice messages in a chat, you will only have to press ‘Play’ on the first voice note, and all the other consecutive messages will be played one after another.
However, the feature will stop if interrupted by some other message or multimedia file.