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You may now hide your profile photo and online status from prying family members with WhatsApp's new privacy features.

 

You may now hide your profile photo and online status from prying family members with WhatsApp's new privacy features.

WhatsApp was spotted working on new privacy controls in November, which would allow users to hide their last seen and online statuses, as well as their profile pictures, from specific contacts — a much-needed counter to competitor Telegram, which already allows users to hide this information on a per-contact basis. It's been seven months, and the Meta-owned platform has recently revealed that those granular settings for who can see your personal data are now available.

On the overall, WhatsApp's privacy features aren't as good as Telegram's. Users can sign up for Telegram without providing a phone number, in addition to being able to hide their profile image and activity updates. When it comes to personal communications, that's a huge difference. Previously, WhatsApp users could hide their profile images and Last seen statuses from anyone with their phone number, certain people in their contacts, or no one at all.

Users may now choose which contacts in their phonebook they don't want to share their profile photo, online status, or bio with. If you want to try it out for yourself, go to the app's settings, select Account, then Privacy, then select the personal information you want to conceal. The new option My contacts except... should be visible here as well. You can pick the contacts with whom you don't want to share all of this information from that option. Keep in mind that you won't be able to see the online status of contacts who can't see your Last seen status.

 

These updates come just a few days after WhatsApp released some useful group call improvements.

Telegram allows users to choose which contacts they want to share your profile photo and Last seen status with at all times. For those with a small social network, including an affirmative approach may be more beneficial. Nonetheless, WhatsApp's new privacy features ensure that your profile photo and online status are hidden from prying eyes, curious friends and family, and business contacts.

 

The feature is being rolled out via a server-side push, so if you're on the latest WhatsApp code, you should see it on your phone (available via APK Mirror).

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