For millions of users around the world, instant messaging applications have become key elements in their daily lives. Whether it is to keep in touch with friends and family or for more professional reasons, WhatsApp stands out above the rest in terms of use.
It does not mean that it is the best in all aspects, far from it, there are many other alternatives, as for example happens with Telegramalso very interesting. Perhaps many people choose to use the Meta application because most of their contacts have an account here. But at the same time we find a huge number of functions and tools of enormous utility.
One of the aspects that the WhatsApp development company takes care of the most is everything related to the security and privacy. Hence precisely the reason for one of the most demanded and anticipated functions that is about to arrive to the app itself. And it is that due to its widespread use throughout the globe, certain malicious users and companies use this platform to bombard us with SPAM.
At this point it is worth noting that this can reach us through messages, calls or video calls from unknown numbers. In one way or another, they try to trick us into obtaining private data or even ask us for certain payments or offer us all kinds of unnecessary products. Meta is fully aware that these practices are becoming more and more common and annoying for its hundreds of millions of customers. That is why it is going to take action on the matter once and for all.
How to get rid of spam on WhatsApp
First of all, it is important to take into consideration that for the moment this is an expected function that is in the testing period. Everything suggests that this SPAM blocking feature will be available to all WhatsApp users in the coming weeks. For now, it is available in the app’s beta channel.
Of course, in order to take advantage of this functionality that we are talking about, we have to activate it manually. In the privacy section we find the new feature that they have initially called Block unknown account messagesSomething we must keep in mind and that Meta makes clear is that this blocking of unknown numbers is not carried out on the first attempt.
And it is that many times we receive messages from people we know, but they write to us with good intentions, even if we do not have the number in our address book. After the second attempt, without interacting or adding that number to our contacts, is when the automatic blocking is carried out. Avoid SPAMThis is a very common method used by those who try to scam us by sending messages over and over again through this platform.
Now we just have to wait for the company to make this useful function available to all users in the WhatsApp stable version. We will certainly be able to get rid of a good number of unwanted messages that are becoming more and more common in this messaging application.