WhatsApp's latest updates support increased privacy and second-thoughts.
monthly users. WhatsApp first introduced a message “unsend” feature way back in 2017, but at the time users only had a seven-minute window to change their mind about a text. The service later increased that time-cap to the oddly specific one-hour-and-eight minutes, before establishing its new, rounded 60-hour deadline. As for the “online presence control,” the customizable addition will allow users to choose which contacts can actually see when they are online.
It’s unclear if the app additions will win back any of the users WhatsApp lost last year after augmenting its privacy policy to share more personal data with its parent company, Meta. While thepressured the company to extend the deadline for opting into the new policy, many people still chose to migrate over to rival, privacy-oriented messaging apps like Signal and Telegram.