for years WhatsApp shows a notice to indicate that you are online. This can be seen by all the contacts you have in your address book, so it is revealed when you are connected or not. After a few years the company has realized that it is time to give the option to remove it.
If you want, you can now hide the “online” of WhatsApp
The WhatsApp beta already has this function in the section of privacy. The objective is to give the user the option to keep or remove this warning for the users that he wants. Yes, it can be configured so that only the contacts you want to see it. Not only does it work like the “Last time” section, but it is integrated with it.
Within the privacy section you can already configure -if you are in the beta- if you want to show or not the famous «online«. You have several options for its configuration so that all users can configure it to their liking.
- hide online for everyone
- Show online only to contacts
- All contacts except those you select
- Hide everyone online, whether they are contacts or not
This way you can make no one knows when you are on whatsapp. Of course, depending on what you select, you will not see the status of other users either. It works the same way as the last hour.
It’s a matter of days WhatsApp expand this feature to the stable version so that the vast majority of users can configure it on their devices. As expected it will be available on mobile Android and IOS. How are you going to configure it?