WhatsApp Adding This New Phone Number Privacy Feature For Communities: All Details – News18

The Meta-owned fashionable messaging utility WhatsApp is reportedly introducing a brand new privateness characteristic for group members, which restricts your cellphone quantity visibility solely to those that have saved you as a contact. The characteristic is offered after putting in the latest replace of WhatsApp for iOS and Android.

“This feature, called “phone number privacy”, ensures that your cellphone quantity is at all times hidden from different members of the group. Thanks to this characteristic, the cellphone quantity will stay hidden even when including a response to a message, the WABetaInfo reported.

According to the WABetaInfo, there could also be a brand new possibility positioned in the neighborhood announcement group data known as “phone number privacy”. The characteristic prompts an alert by informing customers that their cellphone quantity is barely seen to group admins and different individuals who have saved them as a contact.

This characteristic will cover your cellphone quantity so all different individuals received’t be capable of see your full cellphone quantity within the dialog. It is necessary to Note that this characteristic is proscribed to group members and the group admin’s cellphone quantity is at all times seen.

This characteristic introduces a significant benefit by way of privateness as customers will be capable of work together with the group announcement group in full anonymity, for instance, by including a response to a message. In this example, the total cellphone quantity received’t be seen.

The report additionally means that, sooner or later, the cellphone quantity privateness characteristic can even be prolonged to different teams. In addition, in case you’ll be able to privately contact a group member whose cellphone quantity is hidden, you’ll have the choice to ship them a request in order that they’ll select to share their cellphone quantity with you.

The new cellphone quantity privateness characteristic for communities is offered to some beta testers that set up the newest WhatsApp for Android replace from the Google Play Store and WhatsApp for iOS from the App Store and the TestFlight app, and it’s rolling out to much more individuals over the approaching days, the report stated.