WhatsApp is working to introduce a feature that may soon let users hide their online status. There will be an ability to hide online status from specific contacts or groups on the world's most popular chat platform soon, according to WABetaInfo. The beta WhatsApp tracker mentioned that it would be soon possible for users on the platform to hide who can see their online status using two new options: Everyone and Same as Last Seen.
"And yes, if you’re here you already know what the announcement is about: WhatsApp is finally listening to user feedback by developing a feature that lets users choose who can see when they are online on WhatsApp, available in a future update!," WABetaInfo wrote on its page.
As you can see in the screenshot above, it will be possible to configure who can see when we are online right within our last seen settings thanks to two new options: “Everyone” and “Same as Last Seen”. For example, if you choose “My contacts” for “Last Seen” and “Same as Last Seen” for “online”, it means non-contacts would be able to see when you’re online.
"Last year, WhatsApp started automatically hiding the last seen to contacts you never chatted with, in order to prevent third-party apps from monitoring our last seen and online status. Unfortunately, people that we already chatted with could still see when we were online but thanks to the new privacy setting 'who can see when I’m online', they won’t be able to do it anymore," WABetaInfo added.