WhatsApp is launching a caller diagnostic that volition let users to permission lengthy radical chats without alerting others to their exit.

Currently, pulling retired of a WhatsApp radical chat tin beryllium an awkward matter arsenic everyone successful the chat is informed erstwhile you leave. In larger groups, it tin besides beryllium annoying.

Soon, however, alternatively of notifying everyone successful the radical erstwhile idiosyncratic leaves, lone the admins volition beryllium informed. The diagnostic volition commencement rolling to each WhatsApp users this month.

It is portion of a fistful of measures the encrypted messaging level is taking successful an effort to heighten privacy. Another instrumentality announced by the steadfast volition fto users conceal their beingness truthful that others can't spot they're online.

WhatsApp is besides investigating a mounting that stops contacts from screenshotting "View Once" messages, which can't beryllium accessed again aft initially being opened.

In a Facebook station Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta which owns WhatsApp, said it would "keep gathering caller ways to support your messages and support them arsenic backstage and unafraid arsenic face-to-face conversations."

"At WhatsApp, we're focused connected gathering merchandise features that empower radical to person much power and privateness implicit their messages," said Ami Vora, caput of merchandise astatine WhatsApp, successful a statement.

"Over the years, we've added interlocking layers of extortion to assistance support their conversations secure, and the caller features is 1 mode we proceed to present connected our committedness to support messages private."

The update adds to a bid of changes Meta has been making to its platforms lately.

The steadfast precocious overhauled its main Facebook app to prioritize algorithmically recommended content, portion besides creating a caller provender that shows posts from friends and household successful reverse chronological order.

Meta is seeking to triumph favour with younger "Gen Z" users who've eschewed societal apps similar Instagram and Snapchat for TikTok, the wildly fashionable short-form video level owned by China's ByteDance.

TikTok's provender is designed successful a mode that recommends contented based connected what it thinks users volition beryllium astir funny in, making it notoriously addictive to scroll through.