Your WhatsApp status gets another level of privacy

What do you want to know

• WhatsApp is testing a new feature that reminds users of their status privacy settings before sharing them.
• Users can choose to share their status with all contacts, specific groups, or predefined contacts, making it easier to share with specific audiences without needing to constantly adjust privacy settings.
• The new update is currently only available to select beta testers, via the Google Play app, and will roll out to others in the coming days.

According to a recent report from WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will add another layer of privacy to your status updates. The post states that the new beta version of WhatsApp for Android 2.24.12.27 The update discovered that WhatsApp is rolling out a status privacy confirmation feature.

This means users can control who sees their individual status updates. Every time a user uploads a WhatsApp status, a prompt appears just before clicking Share, showing them their status’s privacy settings and asking if they want to edit it. By viewing status privacy settings before sharing content, users can post their status updates to specific groups without adjusting their settings for each status individually.

Users can share a status update with All contacts Or Specific contacts previously configured by the user. Currently, WhatsApp allows users to control who can view status updates via Settings > Privacy; Users can also select who views their updates on the Status Editor page.

With this new update, WhatsApp aims to remind users to whom this status update is visible and adjust their privacy settings, ensuring that their content only reaches “intended” contacts.

While we don’t know when this update will roll out to users, WABetaInfo reports that the Status Privacy Confirmation feature is currently available to select beta testers who install the latest WhatsApp beta updates for Android from from the Google Play Store. It will be rolled out to more people in the “coming days”.

Meanwhile, the messaging app recently announced that it would allow longer status updates and voice notes. This allows users to download WhatsApp status videos for up to one minute. These changes allow users to share longer moments and stories with friends and family.

Additionally, WhatsApp would improve the overall status experience by aligning the most relevant updates at the top of the list. This means that updates from people you frequently talk to or pinned contacts in the Chats tab will be the first to appear on the horizontal list (via Android Font).

Android Central contacted WhatsApp about this, but it did not reach us in time for publication. We will update this article once we have more information.