WhatsApp, the favored messaging platform Meta owns, has rolled out a brand new function permitting customers to dam spam instantly from their lock screens. This replace goals to fight the rising prevalence of spam messages and provides customers higher management over their messaging expertise. Spam messages have lengthy been a priority for messaging networks resembling WhatsApp, flooding customers with undesirable messages starting from promotional gives to fraudulent schemes. By permitting customers to take motion instantly from their lock screens, WhatsApp goals to reinforce consumer privateness and safety whereas fostering a extra seamless messaging expertise.
The brand new function allows WhatsApp customers to determine and block spam messages with no need to unlock their gadgets or navigate by way of the app. When a spam message notification seems on the lock display, customers can now long-press on the notification to entry a number of choices, together with the choice to dam the sender immediately. WhatsApp shows a secondary immediate to report the contact as nicely.
Notably, WhatsApp already exhibits a cautionary notice beneath the contact particulars of any unknown quantity that you simply get a message from. That is adopted by choices so as to add the contact, block it or report and block it. Apart from these direct choices, you possibly can preemptively block a contact. Within the Extra Choices part on the House web page, go to Settings > Privateness > Blocked contacts > Add > Search or choose the contact you want to block.
Customers are required to register their telephone numbers on WhatsApp. Anybody together with your contact particulars can ship you a message on WhatsApp. Nevertheless, this has continued to be a privateness concern. The corporate has reportedly been engaged on a technique to permit connecting on the platform with out exchanging telephone numbers.
WhatsApp can even quickly help cross-platform messaging, which can permit customers from totally different messaging platforms to textual content customers on WhatsApp. A “Third Occasion Chats” part might be obtainable to customers on the appliance’s residence interface, which can present the messages acquired from customers on different platforms whereas separating them from the in-app chats protected by WhatsApp’s E2EE encryption.
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