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WhatsApp introduces My Contacts Except on iOS for Profile Photo, Last Seen, About

How do we hide the profile picture and "last seen" in WhatsApp for certain contacts?

Whatsapp is quite a solution safe in terms of transmission and reception when it comes to text, voice, video and file sharing. Methods of conversation encryption made us not hear about cases so far WhatsApp conversations to be intercepted by someone.

In future versions of WhatsApp, the company Meta (e.g. Facebook Inc.) will introduce on iOS the possibility for users to choose who from the contact list he can see them profile picture (Profile Photo), the last time they were online (last seen) or profile information (About).

These privacy options have long been requested by users, and the wait is over.

Starting with WhatsApp version 2.21.230.15 for iOS / iPhone (currently in beta for testers) users will be able to enjoy the option "My Contacts Except…” for the profile picture, for hiding the time when the application was last used (Last Seen) and for profile information. So if you have contacts in the WhatsApp list that you do not want to see you Profile Photo, About or last seen, in future versions of WhatsApp you can hide this information from the application.

Currently, for Profile Photo, Last Seen and About, there are only privacy options through which we can allow anyone to see them (Everyone), we can limit access only to the contacts in the address book (My Contacts) or we can choose not to see them nobody (Nobody):

How does “My Contacts Except…”, the “Privacy” setting of WhatsApp work?

1. Do we open the WhatsApp application on the iPhone and go to "Account" in the settings menu? "Privacy".

2. The first options from "Privacy" are the ones that interest us: Last Seen, Profile Photo, About.

3. If we want our WhatsApp profile picture not to be seen by certain contacts, open "Profile Photo", press "My Contacts Except..." and select the contacts we don't want to see our profile picture.

You need to know that if we choose some contacts not to see when I last opened WhatsApp, we will not be able to see their presence status - Last Seen for those contacts either. Function “My Contacts Except… ”Will behave for restricted contacts in the same way as the“ Nobody ”option. If we don't want our "Last Seen" status to be seen, we can't see our contacts either.

The new WhatsApp feature "hide last seen, profile photo, about” will most likely be released by the end of 2021.

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