The Last Seen status of WhatsApp enables your contacts to find out when you opened the app last time. This feature is useful to check when your contacts recently used WhatsApp. Meanwhile, the Last Seen status feature enables you to take over and turn off get reading.
The social platform is now testing an option to hide and prevent your Last Seen status in its modified iOS beta release. The app announced last week that it would bring 5 new features to the messaging platform. Most of the features are already included in other messaging apps.
The announcement clearly indicates the messenger is supposedly following up with more demanded features. The hiding option of WhatsApp Last Seen status is one of those 5 new features.
Hide or Limit the Last Seen WhatsApp status
Users can now limit their WhatsApp Last Seen status to specific contacts for a specific time period. However, you can also disable the feature according to your desire. The recent move marks the first time that it would allow you to restrict specific contact list members.
A tech website reported that people can find this latest feature in a new iOS beta version of your messaging app. The new version code is 22.9.0.70 and you can find this feature with various options in the WhatsApp settings.
These options include the Last Seen status (in your WhatsApp), the about section of your profile, and your profile photo. Moreover, WhatsApp began releasing the My Contacts Except feature on 16th April 2022. The company has already released a similar update in a previous beta version for Android users.
Keep Tracking Your Last Seen activity
WhatsApp is offering the WhatsApp Last Seen status as an excellent indicator to find out the last time activity of users. It is more useful to enable friends and family members to keep track of your last seen activity on WhatsApp. Moreover, the new option is considered to provide a way for specific users to track their availability on WhatsApp.
Most people use WhatsApp to connect with managers or coworkers at work without considering this feature an option. Other communities have also found the app more useful to fulfill their communication needs. However, some users just need to have better management over who can see their Last Seen status on WhatsApp.
You can block specific contacts with New Option
The new option would enable users to pick and select contacts they don’t need to give access to their Last Seen status. Moreover, there is an opportunity for iPhone users to prevent spam texts, but some users found it worse. It is more frustrating the spammers are now more clever and powerful.
Most users have experienced spam texts on their iPhones generated from numbers supposedly similar to their own phone numbers. They trick users into considering that the text itself is proper and authorized. Most scammers are now texting unknown users from their own numbers.
However, this specific issue hit Verizon users last week. The company has confirmed making significant efforts to prevent the activities of the alleged scheme. But there isn’t any mechanism to entirely stop spam texts. The iPhone users will find steps to manage their visibility. The simple way to overcome the issue of receiving spam text is to permanently block the suspected numbers.
