Friday, March 29

WhatsApp will allow to hide the phone number to the members of a group


WhatsApp works on a new system that will allow users hide your phone number when they are part of a group messaging app.

Currently, to use WhatsApp it is necessary to have a phone number, which appears by default in the contact information section, along with other features and settings, such as silencing or customizing notifications for said user.

This also happens in the groups, where the participants who, if not saved in the device’s address book or on the SIM card, they are displayed after previously stored contacts.

Now the company is developing a new option that will allow users who are part of a WhatsApp group the possibility of hiding their phone number, as WABetaInfo has warned.

As this portal has pointed out, this option will be disabled by default, which means that the telephone number will remainimmediately hidden for all members when they join a group. However, this data can be shared with other subgroups of the application.

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For now it is unknown whether this option, which at first will only be available on Android phones, will reach the official version of the platform for the operating system developed by Apple,iOSand when it will become official for the rest of Android users.

It should be remembered that the company has implemented changes in WhatsApp groups, with features that include the ability to create groups of up to 512 people, upload files of up to 2GB or react with ’emojis’ to messages.

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