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WhatsApp Group Privacy

  • 20-08-2019 8:39am
    #1
    bromley52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,850 ✭✭✭


    Last April WhatsApp announced group privacy within WhatsApp whereby you could decide whether or not you want to join the group. I have yet to see this option within my app.
    Does anyone have this option available to them?

    Apologies if this has been asked before but I could not find any reference to it.
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  • #2
    GBX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,999 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    If you are added to a group and don't want to be, you can exit it anyway?


  • #3
    bromley52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,850 ✭✭✭bromley52


    GBX wrote: »
    If you are added to a group and don't want to be, you can exit it anyway?

    Cheers but not what I'm asking.


  • #4
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,465 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    No because I have been added to a group since this announcement.

    Glad to hear of this though as I find it really annoying when ppl add you to a group without asking first. And then you look like your the rude one for exiting the group.


  • #5
    Slippin Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    bromley52 wrote: »
    Last April WhatsApp announced group privacy within WhatsApp whereby you could decide whether or not you want to join the group. I have yet to see this option within my app.
    Does anyone have this option available to them?

    Apologies if this has been asked before but I could not find any reference to it.

    Have you been added to a group since the release?


  • #6
    bromley52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,850 ✭✭✭bromley52


    Slippin Jimmy wrote: »
    Have you been added to a group since the release?

    Yes


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  • #7
    GBX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,999 ✭✭✭✭GBX


    Best thing is to get in touch with Whatsapp if your privacy features are not as they should - https://www.whatsapp.com/contact/?subject=messenger


  • #8
    rubberdungeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭rubberdungeon


    We’re introducing a new privacy setting and invite system to help you decide who can add you to groups.

    To enable it, go to Settings in your app, then tap Account > Privacy > Groups and select one of three options: "Nobody", "My Contacts", or "Everyone". "Nobody" means you'll have to approve joining every group to which you're invited, and "My Contacts" means only users you have in your address book can add you to groups.

    https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000661/New-Privacy-Settings-for-Groups

    My app is up to date and I checked my settings options and I don’t have the option for groups.


  • #9
    Slippin Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    rubberdungeon wrote: »

    My app is up to date and I checked my settings options and I don’t have the option for groups.

    Just checked mine too and the option for groups in privacy settings is not there either.


  • #10
    biebiebie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,958 ✭✭✭biebiebie


    "We’re introducing" and not "we have introduced" would indicate to me that the change isn't live yet, but close to being released.


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