With a triptych of distributed releases, WhatsApp has carried out two important roll-outs but, at the same time, has unintentionally and unofficially confirmed that it is working to allow you to hide the online status.
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In the past few hours, WhatsApp, finally decided to work on the option to hide the online status, also took the opportunity to release two ready-made novelties, including an improvement for the “delete for all” function and a revised context menu for the text on the Desktop version.
The first news (long awaited and tested) of this short recap regarding WhatsApp came with the release of WhatsApp Beta version 2.22.15.8 for Android. In the past, the platform’s desire to extend the time limit of the “delete for all” function had emerged which, in selecting a message, as options to delete it, proposes to delete it for all, as an alternative to removing it only for themselves.
At present, the stable version of the app is stopped at the limit of 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 16 seconds. For some time, however, Menlo Park have begun to work to extend this time range and, for a certain period, the possibility of allowing cancellations up to a week was also considered, before abandoning the development of this hypothesis in favor of the limit of 2 days, and 12 hours, cultivated since the beta 2.22.4.10 for Android.
With the release of the aforementioned new beta 2.22.15.8 of WhatsApp for Android it emerged that some beta testers had actually activated this opportunity, as verified by the leakers themselves, who managed to delete a message from the day before.
Another news in share WhatsApp just released was discovered in the beta 2.2225.2.70 of messaging for Desktop, downloadable from the Microsoft Store. In this case, it is the distribution of a redesigned contextual menu intended to appear when, in the field where you type, you select some text: the new version of this menu always carries the items to copy / cut / paste the text, and to select it all, but it also offers other items, including those to format it in italics, bold and strikethrough. Compared to the old version, however, for now there are still no correction suggestions that should appear if a word is spelled incorrectly.
The latest news concerns something not yet released but finally in development, on WhatsApp for iOS (and also intended for Android). To date, it is possible to intervene on configuring who can see our last login, but the same cannot be done with the online status. In a future update, however, this will be possible, as inferred from some preliminary extracted screenshots, which show the sub-section “who can see when I’m online” in the privacy settings.
The operation of the same appears very simple: by setting the last access to “all contacts” and setting the online status to the value “like the last access” (same as last seen), the result will be that those who do not re-enter in our contacts you will not be able to see when we are online.