It’s just two months ago that WhatsApp got embroiled in a global privacy battle after the app announced it was updating its privacy policy to start sharing more data with Facebook in connection with WhatsApp users’ conversations with businesses. The company eventually said it would extend the period before users had to accept its new terms of service.
Although the company still plans to apply its new terms of service from May, the company has begun making some privacy-friendly improvements to its popular voice notation service. The company recently updated its privacy settings to respect the ‘Reading Evidence’ setting for voice notes, as well as for messages sent on the platform.
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WhatsApp feature nice WABetaInfo first noticed the feature and noticed that ‘… We do not know if WhatsApp will fix the old behavior (about read reception feature) in the next updates (because they did not implement this change in the Android version) still), but at the moment the situation is like that. ‘
Most users do not mind the change, while some who are privacy conscious will even appreciate it. But for the rest, who have relied on the feature to keep track of whether their voice notes have been listened to, the new feature may not be very welcome. If your recipient has now turned off their read receipts before, you will not be able to see if he has heard your message, even if your read receipts have been activated.
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If you are a WhatsApp user on the latest version of the app for iOS, you can go to WhatsApp’s settings menu, then go to Account and then tap on Privacy and make the necessary changes to protect your privacy. It is currently unknown whether the Android version of WhatsApp will add the same switch, but it will probably come in a future version.