WhatsApp is testing a hidden contacts hub that surfaces who’s online, pushing convenience into a fresh privacy trade-off.
Key takeaways
- WhatsApp has already hidden a centralized online-status interface in its latest iPhone beta, but even beta testers cannot normally use it yet — a small detail ...
- The new contacts hub would give users one place to see which contacts are online or recently active, instead of opening individual chats one by one, according to 9...
- > “WhatsApp is working on a feature that lets users see which of their contacts are currently online.”
- That line, attributed to WABetaInfo, is the core signal. The feature is not just another button in Settings. It could make real-time availability more prominent in...
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