Do you think WhatsApp is too gossipy? If you don’t believe it, with this new news you may start to think so. The popular instant messaging application is testing a new feature, which will be enemy number one for some users. Why? Because soon WhatsApp will keep a list of users who leave a group .
WhatsApp will tell you which users left a group in the last two months
A few months ago it was leaked that WhatsApp would allow users to silently escape from groups. However, a new rumor indicates that things will not be exactly like that. Thanks to a report from WaBetaInfo , we now know that WhatsApp is testing a new, slightly gossipy feature: the app will allow users to see a list with the name of the people who were previously part of a group .
It is a feature that will be visible to administrators and regular users, and will show a log of the last 60 days . After this period of time, the members who have left the group will no longer be shown in the list. This novelty will be accessible from the group information menu, in the “See previous participants” section.
Currently, this feature is available in WhatsApp Beta for Android and iOS and could reach the stable version in the coming weeks.
Regarding its clash with the silent exit of the groups, we can say that both options really complement each other. WhatsApp will only show the notification of your departure to the administrators of the group, so privacy is maintained. And yes, other users will be able to look at the record of past participants and see that you dropped out (same as seeing the list of active participants), but they won’t know exactly when. Therefore, there is no major problem.
And speaking of privacy issues, WhatsApp is putting a lot of interest in it lately. On the one hand, we know that soon you will be able to hide the “online”; On the other hand, you can now configure temporary messages in all your chats in one fell swoop. And if this were not enough, another novelty that has been in great demand for years will soon arrive: the edition of WhatsApp messages.
