Newly Featured: Context Card for New Group Members in Whatsapp to Enhance Protection & Safety
Whatsapp also shows shortcuts to instant report content in a group and quickly exit it with only two taps.
On Tuesday, Whatsapp provides an amazing feature mainly designed to improve the security of its group messaging features. The Meta-owned messaging platform will now show contextual information to others when they are added to a group by an unknown person. The feature is developed to give WhatsApp users important information about the group they’ve been added to, including a shortcut to exit the group. The feature already provides a setting allowing users to save strangers from adding them to any group.
What is a Context Card for Group Safety in WhatsApp?
As per the details rolled out on Tuesday, WhatsApp offering a new card for group chat members that will be presented after a user is added to any group by a user that is available in their contacts. This card is displayed in the chat window and includes information about the group that will give users context about the group.
The new contact cards for group chats will importantly feature the name of the WhatsApp user who added them to the group. A sample screenshot displaying the feature in action releases that the card displays the name set by the person – The one that is displayed with the symbol (~) when an unknown person sends messages in a group chat.
Whatsapp users will also be up-to-date when they are “added by an unknown group”. The Whatsapp context card will also display the name of the new member to users who created the group. The name, of course, which is completely depends on what the group’s creator has added to their setting in WhatsApp.
If a Whatsapp user has been added to a group that he/she doesn’t want to be a part of, the context card consists of a Safetytools option to report unnecessary content. Users will also see the button “Exit group” to leave when they don’t want to be a part of the group chat.
Safety Measures of WhatsApp’s Existing Group
Back in the year 2019, WhatsApp launched a handy option in Settings> Account> Groups. That option permitted users to be safe from strangers by adding them to a group through the app’s privacy settings. When allowed, users will get an invite to join groups, when a user outside of the contact list tries to add them to a group.
After a user is invited to a group, they have 3 days to accept it before it expires. The invite displays as a direct message, and users are not added to the group yet they click on the Join Group button on the invite. This might be an excellent option for users who wish to ignore being automatically added to groups by unknown users. While at rest being provided an option to join after knowing details of the group and a few of its members.
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