You can soon exclude specific WhatsApp contacts from seeing your status

WhatsApp is currently working on improving its advanced privacy settings by adding a “My Contacts Except…” feature for your profile status. This will allow you to exclude specific contacts so they can’t see your info. The feature will be rolled out to selected beta testers on WhatsApp Beta for iOS.

While the popular instant messaging app has recently revealed that it’s working on making WhatsApp profiles much easier to share, it definitely adds comfort to have the option to hide your current status to some of your contacts. Fortunately, the beta version has been slowly developing this feature over the past few months.

The “My Contacts Except…” functions as a blocklist of sorts for the app, letting users add selected contacts of theirs so that certain activities from their profile status won’t be seen by those people. This is only for the user’s account visibility, which includes elements like their “Last Seen” activity, their profile photo, and their “About” page.  

To access this feature, go to your Settings, then Account, and then Privacy. Choose either “Last Seen,” “Profile Photo,” and “About,” and a new page will open up containing the options “Everyone,” “My Contacts,” “My Contacts Except…,” and “Nobody.” Tapping the aforementioned feature will then allow you to choose contacts that you want to exclude from viewing your information.  

Take note that this status-hiding is mostly a one-way street. You can still view your excluded contacts’ Profile Photo and About. However, you can’t see their “Last Seen” time since you’re not sharing yours. Nevertheless, it’s a pretty handy feature to have so you don’t just set everything to “Nobody” when you want to hide your profile. Another cool privacy feature WhatsApp improved is photos from WhatsApp disappearing chats are no longer being auto-saved.

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