This feature presents a huge advantage in terms of privacy.
Thanks to this feature, the phone number will remain hidden even when adding a response to a message.
Meta-owned popular messaging application WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new privacy feature for community members that limits the visibility of your phone number to only people who have saved you as a contact. The feature is available after installing the latest update of WhatsApp for iOS and Android.
This feature, called “Phone Number Privacy”, ensures that your phone number is always hidden from other members of the community. Due to this feature, the phone number will remain hidden even when adding a reaction to a message, reports WABetaInfo.
According to WABetaInfo, a new option called “Phone Number Privacy” can be located in the community announcement group info. This feature sends alerts to users informing them that their phone number is only visible to community admins and others who have saved them as contacts.
This feature will hide your phone number so that all other participants in the conversation will not be able to see your full phone number. It is important to note that this feature is limited to community members and the community admin’s phone number is always visible.
This feature presents a huge advantage in terms of privacy as users will be able to interact with the community announcement group in complete anonymity, for example by adding a response to a message. In this case, the full phone number will not be displayed.
The report also suggests that, in future, the phone number privacy feature will be extended to other groups as well. In addition, if you are able to privately contact a community member whose phone number is hidden, you will have the option to send them a request so that they can choose to share their phone number with you.
The new phone number privacy feature for communities is available to some beta testers who install the latest WhatsApp for Android from the Google Play Store and WhatsApp updates for iOS from the App Store and TestFlight app, and it’s rolling out to even more people is being done. in the coming days, the report said.
