Whatsapp – Hide Last Seen Feature Arrived in New Update

Almost every smartphone user knew value of whatsapp app it improves the communication between friends ,lovers and families. If you are familiar with whatsapp app you might have known the Last Seen feature of whatsapp app . It will show others when the user opened the app last time with date and timings below their profile name . This particular feature has advantages as well as disadvantages.Advantage is it will let our friends and families  to know when we opened and used the app last time with Time-stamp which is clearly an advantage . On the other side who ever has our contact number can see our profile pictures,Status and last seen status which is a clearly disadvantage without any doubt. There is a option to Block contact number but there is no way for us to know  how many persons having our contact number. So it affects our privacy. Taking advantage of this many 3rd party apps got released in Google PlayStore to Hide last seen status in whatsapp but till now Nothing fulfilled users needs completely.

With recent Purchase of Whatsapp by Facebook this might be considered as Good update for Android users, This Update brings an Option to Hide Last Seen Status from Everyone , My contacts and Nobody, along with Profile picture and Status. Adding to that, this update brings an option to save our friends profile picture finally like in the iPhone.To know and save your friends Whatsapp profile pictures automatically refer the below link.

And also Camera shortcut for quicker picture sending and ability to pay for our Friends Whatsapp Service features added. You can refer below screenshot(click to enlarge) for the list of features available with this update.

 

How to Hide Last Seen,Profile Pictures, Status:

First make sure to update your whatsapp to the lattest version ,here is the whatsapp playstore link

Go to ->Menu (3 Dotted)  –>  Settings –> Account –> Privacy  –> Last Seen

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How to Save Profile Picture:

Select the user profile (Tap the user Profile picture) -> select the Share icon which is at right hand-side top