WhatsApp has received new privacy protection features. This includes the setting to hide your profile picture from certain contacts.
WhatsApp is focusing on user privacy with new features. (Source: Netzwelt/Smartmockups.com)
- WhatsApp wants to give users more privacy settings.
- Among other things, the profile picture can now be hidden from certain contacts.
The provider of WhatsApp urges more care when using the messenger. Accordingly, you should really be careful with whom you share data, pictures and locations.
WhatsApp also gets more settings to protect privacy. A new blog entry confirms the new function of hiding your profile picture even from certain contacts.
This can be helpful if you think your profile picture may be inappropriate for certain people in your contacts.
Hide profile picture
It just takes a little bit of navigating the app to hide your profile picture. Follow these steps:
- Open whatsapp
- settings
- accounts
- privacy
- profile pic
- Choose the option you want, such as “My contacts, except…”
The innovations do not only refer to the profile picture. You can also control who can see the “Last Seen” mark, your status, or your About under “Privacy” in Settings. The settings are always here:
- Everyone
- my contacts
- My contacts except…
- No one
But there is another major innovation in the offing. In the future, there should be more reactions in the form of emojis in WhatsApp, with which you can react to messages. Windows users can also look forward to it.
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