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WhatsApp Beta Introduces Function to Block Messages From Unknown Accounts

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September 21, 2024
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WhatsApp has begun rolling out an replace to beta testers together with a brand new characteristic designed to maintain customers secure from undesirable messages despatched from unknown accounts. A characteristic tracker noticed a brand new characteristic that robotically protects customers from unidentified senders, by filtering out messages underneath particular circumstances. The characteristic is already out there to some testers and have to be manually enabled. It will finally be a part of two different ‘superior’ security options geared toward defending person privateness whereas utilizing the messaging app.

After updating to WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.20.16, customers could have entry to a brand new setting that blocks messages from some unidentified accounts (by way of WABetaInformation). Beta testers who’re operating the most recent model for Android smartphones can faucet on the three-dot menu > Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Block unknown account messages. Gadgets 360 was capable of verify that the brand new toggle was out there on the most recent beta model.

WhatsApp customers will quickly acquire entry to a different privateness characteristic
Photo Credit: WABetaInformation

 

WhatsApp’s description for the brand new characteristic states that it’s designed to guard a person’s account and enhance gadget efficiency. Once enabled, the messaging platform will “block messages sent by unknown accounts if they exceed a certain volume”. An inflow of spam messages would possibly negatively have an effect on the efficiency of a person’s gadget, and the brand new characteristic seems to be designed to guard customers from automated spam messages.

This characteristic is at present restricted to beta testers, which signifies that customers on the steady replace channel must await a wider rollout. When it is enabled, customers will nonetheless see messages from unknown accounts inside an unspecified restrict — WhatsApp is unlikely to reveal this with a purpose to deter spammers from bypassing the corporate’s characteristic.

The characteristic to dam messages from unknown accounts will be a part of two different options that provide superior privateness on WhatsApp — defending a person’s IP deal with in calls, and disabling hyperlink previews to forestall third events from inferring a person’s IP deal with. All three options are choices and have to be manually enabled by a person on their smartphone.

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