San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is working on a feature that will give iOS users the ability to hide their online status from everyone. According to WABetaInfo, this feature will come in a future update as it is under development so it cannot be released to beta testers because it is not ready. As of now, users can choose to display their “last seen” information to contacts, certain people, or anyone. For a future version of the app, WhatsApp will let users follow a similar approach to Toggle Online, reports 9To5Mac.
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This new privacy feature is being developed at the same time that WhatsApp is also rolling out another important function, the ability to edit messages.
It’s been a long time since the app started letting users delete messages, but it never brought the ability to edit them – which is eventually changing in a future update.
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The ability to edit and delete messages is coming to yet another beloved messaging app: iMessage with iOS 16. While this sparked some controversy, being able to edit and delete a message can come in very handy when you misspelled or misspelled a word. For one person in chat.