WhatsApp Working on Ability to Hide Online Status

NEW DELHI: WhatsApp is finally listening to user feedback by developing a feature that lets a user choose who can see when they are online on WhatsApp.

Who can see when I'm Online on WhatsApp

Over the years, a lot of users requested to be able to hide their online status. There may be different reasons why people want to use WhatsApp in stealth mode: for example, some users want to use WhatsApp 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.

And yes, if you're here you already know what the announcement is about: WhatsApp is finally listening to user feedback by developing a feature that lets users choose who can see when they are online on WhatsApp, available in a future update!

As per the screenshot, it will be possible to configure who can see when we are online right within our last seen settings thanks to two new options: "Everyone" and "Same as Last Seen". For example, if you choose "My contacts" for "Last Seen" and "Same as Last Seen" for "online", it means non-contacts won't be able to see when you're online.

Last year, WhatsApp started automatically hiding the last seen to contacts you never chatted with, in order to prevent third-party apps from monitoring our last seen and online status. Unfortunately, people that we already chatted with could still see when we were online but thanks to the new privacy setting "who can see when I'm online", they won't be able to do it anymore.

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