WhatsApp introduces new privacy feature

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp on Wednesday launched a new privacy feature to make it possible to disable privacy settings for specific contacts.

WhatsApp announced this news on its official Twitter handle. The messaging portal wrote: “Settings > Account > Privacy > Last Seen > Nobody.”

This feature will be available in a future update on WhatsApp beta for Android 2.21.20.10.

Previously, the Facebook-owned messaging app had three privacy settings (last seen, profile picture, about) with three options (everyone, my contacts, nobody) to manage these settings.

This meant that, if you didn’t want a specific contact to see your last seen, you had to set the privacy setting of your last seen to “nobody”.