Last year, WhatsApp added an option of hiding your Last Seen status from specific contacts. For the privacy point of view, it was a step taken in the right direction but it is not only the feature that has company has been working on since then. Earlier, WhatsApp introduced the ability to hide your online status and now this feature is working its way to Android version of WhatsApp beta.
With the WhatsApp beta for Android v2.22.16.12 a new privacy setting has been accessed by WABetaInfo. According to their repost, opening the app and navigating to Settings > Account > Privacy > Last seen and online reveals an option to select who can see when you are online. The option is tied in with Last Seen settings directly as you can only select whether to have everyone know your availability or the ones who can see your Last seen. It looks like a straightforward addition but it is an addition that will bridge the gap between official WhatsApp application and mods like GB WhatsApp which users may install for extra privacy.

Now a days WhatsApp has been focusing on emoji, additional controls for group chat administrators and securing the chats. But just a few days ago, Meta CEP Mark Zuckerberg announced that they could look forward to three new privacy-centric changes coming to WhatsApp. The users are starting to see signs of one of those features that Meta’s CEO mentioned i.e. screenshot blocking for view-once messages. So very soon you will not be able to take screenshots and save the messages that senders intended you to see only once.
WhatsApp could follow in Snapchat’s footsteps and notify the sender when a recipient takes a screenshot of the content. When the feature rolls out, a prompt will introduce the beta testers to this improved version of view once media. It also restates you can not share, copy, forward or save the content. Tough it is a step in the right direction but you need to now there are ways to work around a screenshot blocker as well like you can take pictures of WhatsApp media with another device or can start a screen recorder before opening view once content.

WhatsApp group is getting larger and larger day by day/ the group cap is at 256 people which was great for the group of friends as well as classrooms, but it started to get limiting once people wanted to make group chats for larger groups of people. The cap was raised to 512 people just recently. WhatsApp is going to double it again and let you make group chats with more than thousand members.
WhatsApp is now introducing the ability to make groups with up to 1,024 people to a cadre of the beta testers. This feature is rolling out to both Android and iOS devices. If you have the new beta version, you will see increased member cap when you are about to create group chat. A group with more than thousand people will not work differently from how group chats currently work. You will have more people reading and replying your messages. Adding more than thousand people to WhatsApp group chat may look a bit odd especially as this comes only after few months after it doubled the number from 256 to 512 people. But competitor Telegram already lets the users to add up to 200,000 people to join same group chat. If you need to create large group chat, you are required to make sure that you are enrolled in WhatsApp beta.

Google is taking its unique Face Unblur feature from Pixel 6 series and is expanding it to 7 series as well. At the e beginning, Photo Unblur will be only for Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro and everyone who uses Google Photos can sharpen their old photos very soon.
This feature was not accessible for the users in Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, but spot corrections driven by machine learning that can improve details of human faces in a photo even when capture times drag on little bit long. We are still not sure what Google has said about Photo Unblur that will there will a user experience here that will focus on sharpness and noise reduction with few taps or not. The machine learning is not limited to new Pixels, it will also work with old photos as well.

Samsung Galaxy S22 series has got some of the best Android phones that you can buy now but tomorrow will be here very soon, and there is a long wait for its successor, the Galaxy S23 series. Just like last time, Samsung is expected to launch three different devices. The base Galaxy S23, S23 Plus and S23 Ultra, all of which will continue by using the similar design with some notable changes.
Two images of the protective cases have been leaked which are meant for the Galaxy S23, appearing to corroborate previous renders which suggest the phone will look more like Galaxy S22 Ultra without large, raised camera island surrounding lenses. The placement of the triple-camera array and its flash seems unchanged from the last year’s model but here every camera lens protrudes from back panel.

For many years, Twitter users are asking for an edit button, so that they can correct the typos and backtrack on accidentally tagging wrong people, all without deleting a tweet and starting fresh. Now Twitter has acknowledged that it was developing an edit feature. We are still not pretty much sure that when you will have the chance to use itself but Twitter Blue account just put out a tweet that shows editing on action.

The “Last edited” note there leaves no question that this message has been edited successfully after being posted publicly. We hope that editing will be ready for the public use very soon but so far we don’t have any knowledge about the release time. Even with this feature within reach we have got loads of queries about the potential fallout.

Now a days a smartphone is offering almost everything and with this, it is very easy to overlook the basic voice calls and Google’s Phone app rarely see the limelight. Google is updating the Phone aap consistently and it is not often that we hear about picking up major new features or undergoing the visual changes. That is because it works pretty fine already and does not need much of the maintenance. But at the moment we are seeing one change that catches our eyes, as the recent beta build of the app tweaks user interface for when you are on a call.

The Phone app has placed in-call action buttons in two rows of three. These control lets you access the keypad, add participants to the call, mute yourself, pace the call on hold, record the interactions and many more. Sometimes, you may have to swipe through two pages in horizontal direction in order to see all the available options. With the latest version of the Phone app public beta, Google’s in-call screen features one row of four buttons, including an overflow that reveals additional in-call options a row above when ever tapped. The new layout has placed the buttons closer together that older UI and arranges then against a card-like backdrop that contrasts against rest of the screen. On the taller phones, the buttons are huddled closer to the bottom, making them very simple to reach with either thumb. Additional call options in the upper row are right-aligned, making the app easier for one-handed use.