Whatsapp has rolled out a bunch of updates that it has been working on for a long time. The Meta-owned messaging app has announced three important features, such as the ability to leave groups without letting anyone know, ability to hide your online status and blocking screenshots for view once messages. Not only will the features provide an added layer of protection but also let users have more control over their messages.
privacy features coming to WhatsApp: exit group chats without notifying evryone, control who can see when you’re online, and prevent screenshots on view once messages. We’ll keep building new ways to protect your messages and keep them as private and secure as face-to-face conversations.”
WhatsApp will let you leave WhatsApp groups silently. This means that the other participants will not get to know when you exit a group. The previous setup displayed a message in the group everytime a participant. However, with the new feature, you can leave the group without letting everyone know. The admin will inadvertently be notified about your exit. While this may be a good update for people who do not wish to offend people with their exit, the group members who you interact with frequently would want to know about your whereabouts.
There are just too many pesky groups in the message app. We are added to some against our will and we don’t leave them out of courtesy. For instance, the family groups where you not active but receive forwarded and sometimes agenda-driven messages that go completely against your ideology yet you cannot leave that group because you do not wish to offend your family members. The new feature would not make much of a difference because people will come to know about your exit sooner or later but it would not come as a blow. In the current setup, the message that appears after a person leaves can easily offend people. And sometimes you do not leave a group in an angry state of mind, you leave because your thoughts do not align with other members. Sometimes it also gets too toxic.
So when you try to exit a group, you will be greeted with a message saying that only admins will be notified when you leave a group.
Here is how you can leave a group on WhatsApp
Open the WhatsApp group chat, then tap the group subject. Alternatively, tap and hold the group in the CHATS tab.
Tap Exit group > EXIT.