WhatsApp: Soon! You can hide your number from specific groups - Check details

WhatsApp update: In good news, the Meta-owned popular messaging application WhatsApp is reportedly working in a new feature that would allow users to hide their phone numbers from select WhatsApp Groups. The feature is currently under development. 

According to the WABetaInfo, a website that tracks WhatsApp, users will soon be able to hide their phone numbers from their interlocutors, but so far only in certain groups in the Android application By default, this option will be inactive. Your phone number will be automatically hidden from all group members when you join, but you can later choose to share it with a particular subgroup if you so choose. 

The messaging app is rumoured to be releasing the update through the Google Play beta programme, using the Android 2.22.17.23 beta.  Also, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that WhatsApp will be introducing three new privacy features to users. These WhatsApp features will give users more control over their conversations and added layers of protection when messaging. 

WhatsApp has added new layers of privacy features in order to give the user more ways to secure their messages, including disappearing messages that self-destruct, end-to-end encrypted backups when you want to save your chat history, 2-step verification for added security, and the ability to block and report unwanted chats

The three new WhatsApp features will add to other privacy features that have been available for users.

“New privacy features coming to WhatsApp: exit group chats without notifying everyone, 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," Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Meta, said.