WhatsApp is introducing a series of options to make it easier to understand if a user is online. One of these is a green dot that appears next to your profile photo. If the dot is active, the user is online.
A green dot appearing on the profile photo. It’s a dot tinywhich is located at the bottom right. You can see it immediately by scrolling through the history with the our conversations. If a contact has that green dot it means they are online. Until now, to understand if a contact is online and therefore can respond immediately, you had to access the conversation. Only once opened could it be seen whether the status was “online” or whether only the last access was recorded. Of course, this information can only be found if the privacy settings they allow it. The blog WABetaInfo has now found a still experimental version of WhatsApp in which this dot has been introduced instead. Let’s talk about one Betathe not yet official version of software, developed for Android. The exact code is 2.26.13.3. In addition to the green dot, the new update aims to make it easier to find those who are online. In fact, conversations can be sorted following a chronological criterion or directly by status: this way online contacts can be seen before others. These are functions that we have also seen in other platforms, starting with Facebook.
The privacy issue: how settings change
Since it’s one Betaat the moment there is no certain information. We don’t know when the new feature will be introduced on all smartphones. And we don’t even know if it will ever happen. In the past, options tested in Beta have also entered the official softwaresometimes they stopped at this stage of development. For now, Meta is carrying out random tests to understand if this is an option that can work for its users. In all likelihood, if it were introduced it will still be possible to manage it from the Settings, exactly as it already happens now. Following the path Settings > Privacy > Last seen e online At the moment you can already manage this whole part. You can choose who can see our last login and also who can see when we are actually online.
