It works similarly to a Facebook post or an Instagram story: you can fine-tune which contacts see your message, but the feature does not let you appear offline. That's because on WhatsApp, "status" refers to status updates on the app. But you simply cannot hide whether you are online, not to your contacts, nor to anyone. The ability to edit and delete messages is also coming to iMessages on iPhones with iOS 16.WhatsApp offers a feature to control your "status," which users may think refers to their contacts seeing if they are online or not. It has been quite a while since the app started letting users delete messages, but it never brought the ability to edit them - which is finally changing in a future update.įurther, the company is also rumoured to be working on allowing users to delete messages that are up to two days and 12 hours old, extending from the current limit of just over one hour. The new privacy-focused feature is being developed at the same time there are reports of WhatsApp bringing the aility to edit messages after they are sent. For a future version of the app, WhatsApp will let users follow a similar approach to their online status, the WABetaInfo report hints.ĪLSO READ: WhatsApp Is Increasing The Time Limit To Delete Messages For Everyone To Give You More Time To Undo Mistakes Currently, users can choose to display their “Last Seen" information to contacts, some people, or no one.
According to the report, the feature is still under development and has not even been launched for beta testers since it is not ready.
The feature, spotted in a report from WABetaInfo, has been found in an iOS beta version of WhatsApp, and is set to come to end users in a future update. This will come as an extension of the already-existing feature where users can hide their “Last Seen" status from their contacts. Meta-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp is working on a feature that will give users the ability to hide their online status from everyone.
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