WhatsApp Update: WhatsApp's new feature will come soon, you will be able to share special status with 'close friends'..

Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp constantly keeps testing new features, and now the company is going to make its status updates more personal. According to reports, the 'Close Friends' feature is going to be introduced in WhatsApp soon, with the help of which users will be able to share their status only with selected friends or trusted contacts. This feature will be like Instagram's 'Close Friend Stories'.

Status sharing will be more private.

WhatsApp Status works like Instagram Stories, where photos, short videos, or text updates can be posted. These updates are visible for 24 hours and then disappear automatically. According to Meta's data, even though its popularity is less in the US, more than 1.5 billion people around the world update their WhatsApp status daily.

At present, WhatsApp gives three privacy options for sharing status. In this, you can share the update with all contacts, exclude some people, or show the update only to selected contacts. The “Only Share With” option already exists, but the new Close Friends feature will make this process even easier, as a dedicated list can be created in it.

How will the new feature work

According to a report by WABetaInfo, this feature has already been seen in the TestFlight Beta version of iOS. Under this, users will set up a Close Friends list once and then while posting every status update, they will be able to easily choose whether to show it to all contacts or only that specific list.

To distinguish these updates from normal status, WhatsApp will show a different colored ring. This will immediately let the members of the list know that this post has been made only for them. The special thing is that, just like Instagram, the list will remain completely private in this feature. That is, no notification will be sent that someone has been added or removed from this list. In this way, users will get complete control over who they want to show their private status updates to.

Meta's big strategy
This move is part of Meta's strategy to make the user experience on its different apps the same. By bringing Instagram's popular feature to WhatsApp, the company is ensuring that users get the same feature on both platforms and can easily switch between these apps.

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