Yes, we have already reached that dreaded time: Christmas. Business dinners, family gatherings, friends, winter holidays. And all of this, beyond the routines of gifts, purchases, preparations and so on, also brings a less pleasant aspect (at least for some): that they include us in a WhatsApp group… with the bombardment of messages (many of them unsolicited) that we began to receive. And the “valuable opportunity” of having people we are not interested in among our contacts. And may these also have ours.
Although WhatsApp has solved this elegantly when the person adding us is not among our contacts (we are asked if we accept the invitation) the reality is that they also We have the possibility of selecting who can and who cannot, join a group, with first and last name. As long as it is in our contacts, obviously.
To do this you must follow the following steps. In the WhatsApp app we go to Settings and go down until we find the Privacy option. From there we go to Groups and we have three options: Everyone, My Contacts or My Contacts except…
To effectively identify those who do and do not have the power, We select this option and here comes the ant’s job: choosing who we give that privilege to.
Obviously, this does not prevent someone from inviting us to be part of a group, but for this we receive a message that tells us if we accept the invitation, it cannot add “by default”.
As time goes by, these options can be changed and, If we consider that some contacts have earned trust (or lost it) we can change their status quo.
What we would ask for in a future update is the creation of Temporary Groups. In the same way that temporary messages exist, that are deleted on a predetermined datethere should also be these groups that, once the event is over (Vacations 2025, Ballet Performance Group 10 years, Benjamin Football Trip, etc.) are automatically deleted. For a privacy issue. And avoid surprise message chains, why deny it.