Don't be put in groups without asking your permission
If you're one of those people who hate being included in WhatsApp groups without your consent, you can now configure the app to avoid it.
There has always been a lack of privacy when it comes to groups. Anyone can add you to one of these conversations and expose your phone number without your permission. Even people we have blocked can add us to a group, created by another user, to talk with us
But this is finally coming to an end and we'll tell you how this new privacy setting that comes to the app works.
Prevent being put into WhatsApp groups without your permission:
In the following video we show you how this new privacy option, dedicated to groups, is and how it works.
Within the Whatsapp, we access the “Settings” button, select “Account” and after that, click on the “Privacy” option. There we will find the new "Groups" function where we can configure who we give permission to add ourselves to a group without asking for permission and who we don't.
GROUP option in WhatsApp
We have three options to manage invitations to WhatsApp: groups
- Everyone: Option that allows anyone to add you to a group without permission. It would be like we have been up to now.
- My contacts: Only the contacts we have in our phone's phonebook can add us to groups without asking for permission.
- My contacts, except: Like the previous option, you allow your contacts to add you to a group but you can select who you don't give permission to do so.
Using the last two functions, we can stop our inclusion in groups without our consent.
If someone we don't allow to put us in one of these chats wants to do it, a message will appear that will redirect them to send us a private message inviting us to it.
Invite a contact to a WhatsApp group
When we receive a request for inclusion in a group, it will be up to us to accept or decline the invitation. In that invitation we can see which people are included in it.
Accept or not, the invitation.
Thanks to this new function we will be able to NOBODY can put us in a group without our permission.
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