WhatsApp privacy settings will get the first update in years. the new option does this

At present, there are three options for WhatsApp privacy settings – Everyone, My Contacts and Nobody. It manages who can see your last seen, profile picture and about details on the messaging platform. Everyone opens these details to everyone, while selecting My Contacts narrows them down to the people in your contact list. To hide these details, users simply have no one.

Users cannot customize their privacy settings if they wish, as on Facebook. For example, to hide their Last Seen or Profile Picture from a particular contact, they have to choose None, which will hide this detail from everyone.

Now, WhatsApp has started working on a new option for its privacy settings called ‘Accept My Contacts…’, reports WABetaInfo, a portal that looks into the latest updates on WhatsApp. The option will allow you to block specific contacts from seeing your last seen, profile picture or about.

Screenshot shared by WABetaInfo. Was taken from iOS, but this feature is expected to appear on Android as well. WABetaInfo said the screenshot also shows ‘Accept My Contacts…’ option for Last Seen, but profile picture and about sections will also be available.

This feature is currently in the early stages of development and is likely to be released to beta testers in a future update. So to get it first, users can register with WhatsApp beta program on Android and iOS. When this feature will appear on beta version it will still be under development and will take some time to appear on stable version.

However, there is no open slot in the TestFlight app for WhatsApp on iOS and the beta testing program for WhatsApp on Android is also full. You can install it from APKMirror when new privacy features come out to test them.