On many occasions you have surely found yourself, especially if you are in many social circles and have many acquaintances / friends, who have put you in WhatsApp groups in which you really do not want to be, being certainly annoying to have to be leaving them each time or resorting to silencing them so that their messages do not reach you.
To meet the needs of all users who were tired of this type of situation, WhatsApp decided to enable a new function with which to prevent a user from being added to a group chat without their consent.
This option is not available at the moment for all users, but there are already some who can enjoy it. As with any function that comes to WhatsApp, it does so progressively, so that little by little it will be reaching all users, who in this way will be able to better configure their preferences regarding groups, without to be thus put in groups that really are not of their interest.
How to avoid being added to WhatsApp groups without your consent
If you want to prevent anyone from adding you to a group without your approval, it is as simple as, if you already have this function activated in your version of WhatsApp, go to Settings, to later go to the section Accounts and then to Privacy . In this section you should see the option "Groups".
In this section you will find three different options, which are: nobody, my contacts and anyone. In this way, as users you can choose the option that best suits you in your case, that is, you can choose if you do not want anyone to be able to add you to a group without an invitation, if only those users who are part of the group are allowed to do so. your contact list, or if, as before, anyone who wishes can add you to a group, which is the default configuration that appears in the well-known instant messaging service.
As we have mentioned before, it may not be active in your application yet. For this reason it is important that you have it updated to the latest version, and even so you may still have to wait a few more weeks to enjoy this function that is very useful to be able to manage privacy in regards to groups.
On the other hand, beyond being able to manage when you want to be able to add to a WhatsApp group or not, Facebook, the owner of the instant messaging application, continues to work on new additional functionalities.
In fact, it is expected that the application will have its own browser that allows access to the links to web pages that are placed in the application itself directly from the instant messaging service itself and without having to leave the platform, as is currently the case. , which causes that clicking on a link opens the terminal's default browser to access the web.
In this way, it is much more comfortable for the user to be able to enjoy the URLs that are shared through the instant messaging platform, much faster and much more comfortable.
It is also expected that in the next updates of the messaging platform the Dark mode that has already reached many other applications and that can now be enjoyed both on Twitter and on Facebook and Instagram, WhatsApp being the great application that for the moment remains to have this mode that is so demanded by users due to the great advantages it offers. offers.
This function will be integrated into the application and will not require any additional installation.
WhatsApp continues to be the reference application in Spain in terms of instant messaging applications, ahead of other applications such as Telegram, Facebook Messenger or Instagram Direct, although it has been receiving certain improvements, but updates do not arrive as frequently as the community would like.
In fact, users have been demanding for a long time that WhatsApp have the dark mode as well as other additional functions, although the developers of the application have taken a long time to incorporate the different requests of the users.
We will see if in the next updates WhatsApp incorporates major changes that go beyond those seen so far, where in many cases it has been based on incorporating some improvements that have previously reached other applications of the company but in other social networks, such as This is the case of the WhatsApp statuses, which are a copy of the Instagram and Facebook stories.
WhatsApp, although it continues to be the instant messaging application preferred by the large number of users to communicate with other people, it is not an application that has been characterized by launching a large number of improvements, at least at the user level, since although has made an effort to increase the security and privacy of users, at a functional level and additional features, the application has been updated at a low rate.
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