WhatsApp Updates Last Seen Feature, Can Be Hidden From Annoying Contacts

WhatsApp will hide various information from excluded contacts. (photo credit: Christian Wiediger / Unsplash)

JAKARTA - It seems that WhatsApp no longer wants to lose its users. This is because WhatsApp is reportedly developing the last seen feature, allowing users to hide last seen only for certain contacts.

"Today WhatsApp is finally working to introduce another option called My Contacts Except, so you can finally enable your last seen, and you can disable it for specific contacts," WABetaInfo said, Wednesday, September 8.

Last seen is a feature where other users can see the last time they opened WhatsApp. Initially last seen was only visible to all users, before WhatsApp updated it.

WABetaInfo said, with this new feature, users can choose to hide the status of all their contacts and choose to hide last seen to the desired selected contacts, without disabling it at all. This also applies to profile photos and bios.

"Keep in mind, if you disable the last seen feature for certain contacts, you also can't see their status," said WABetaInfo.

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Citing Android Police, WhatsApp's new feature will later become a two-way street, when users hide last seen, profile photos and bios of some of the people they choose from contacts.

So, WhatsApp will also hide various information from the excluded contacts, so users can't see each other. This feature is known to have only been tested on iOS users, and in the future, WhatsApp will soon implement it for other users.

The option to hide status for certain contacts is an extension of a similar feature that is currently available. Of course, WhatsApp's new policy is expected to give users more control over their privacy.