{"id":615569,"date":"2022-08-10T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=615569"},"modified":"2022-08-10T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:33:29","slug":"3-new-features-for-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/615569\/3-new-features-for-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"3 new features for WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging service WhatsApp is rolling out several security and privacy features, including the ability to choose who can see you when you are online and blocking screenshots of view-once messages.<\/p>\n<p>The messaging platform, owned by tech giant Meta, will also allow users to leave group chats privately without sending a notification to everyone when exiting groups.<\/p>\n<p>Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg announced the new features in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/pfbid0SpGLGuycAAic9icVxdq2XND7nupqRG1k2DUjkuu7vj1sXBEyXJwzoH6RTMWN7t9sl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook post<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll keep building new ways to protect your messages and keep them as private and secure as face-to-face conversations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Your privacy deserves more protection.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re excited to announce three \ud83c\udd95 layers of security to wrap your messages in.<\/p>\n<p>Learn what they do \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AmV0YoZcC8\">pic.twitter.com\/AmV0YoZcC8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhatsApp\/status\/1557004127170924546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Whatsapp said the following in a blog post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Leave Groups Silently<\/b>: We love our group chats, but some are not forever. We\u2019re making it possible to exit a group privately without making it a big deal to everyone. Now, instead of notifying the full group when you are leaving, only the admins will be notified. This feature will start to roll out to all users this month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Choose Who Can See When You&#8217;re Online<\/b>: Seeing when friends or family are online helps us feel connected to one another, but we\u2019ve all had times when we wanted to check our WhatsApp privately. For the moments you want to keep your online presence private, we\u2019re introducing the ability to select who can and can\u2019t see when you\u2019re online. This will start rolling out to all users this month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Screenshot Blocking For View Once Messages<\/b>: View Once is already an incredibly popular way to share photos or media that don\u2019t need to have a permanent digital record. Now we\u2019re enabling screenshot blocking for View Once messages for an added layer of protection. We\u2019re testing this feature now and are excited to roll it out to users soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WhatsApp had recently introduced View-Once messages, where the messages will self-destruct after being viewed once by their recipients. It also announced that for users who were rethinking any message sent during a chat, would now &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/615055\/south-africa-has-a-new-app-to-tackle-potholes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Africa has a new app to tackle potholes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging service WhatsApp is rolling out several security and privacy features, including the ability to choose who can see you when you are online, and blocking screenshots of view-once messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":409605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[26,2118],"class_list":["post-615569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615585,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615569\/revisions\/615585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}