WhatsApp allows you to invite anyone to a group, as long as that person has the option to accept such invitations activated. And until now there was no way to leave those groups anonymously and without leaving the “left group” notice. Luckily, WhatsApp is working on allowing anyone to leave groups without the application proclaiming it to the four windsan option that users had been demanding for some time.
It doesn’t bother you that someone invites you to a WhatsApp group that doesn’t concern you at all. Those of parties that you don’t plan to go to, the groups that school parents set up in parallel to school, that invitation that comes from the person you are least interested in… And of course, you would leave the happy group before even entering , but WhatsApp does not allow to leave it silent; so he’s always going to tell you that you didn’t want to share space with the rest of the people. What would be good if there was a way to leave the group anonymously and without archiving it so that it could be lost from view?
It will be possible to leave the group, but not completely silently
Confirmation notice for silent group leaving. Image from WaBetaInfo
WhatsApp recently introduced notable improvements to its groups. Communities will be available soon, too expanded the number of users who can participate in any WhatsApp group: up to 512 people. In addition, the company started working on an option that is already beginning to appear in the code of the web version.
WaBetaInfo has been in charge of discovering the novelty related to WhatsApp groups: as its screenshot shows, taken from the web version of the application, WhatsApp has included silent group abandonment within its messaging options . Once activated, any you will be able to leave the groups without the application notifying you that you have left, which is just what has been happening so far. Of course, this novelty has an important nuance.
Although WhatsApp will not openly publish that the user left the group, yes it will notify the administrators of said group. That is, it will not be completely anonymous because the owner of the group, and all those to whom he has made administrators, will know when their tenants leave it.
As is often the case with the novelties that WhatsApp tests at the code level, we ignore the moment in which the company will activate the anonymous abandonment of groups. It is currently hidden in the web version; then it will surely be hidden in the Android and iPhone betas; later it will end up reaching the stable versions of the mobile application. Perhaps when the communities are deployed definitively.
Via | WabetaInfo
