This novelty would help users avoid communications from people who can be annoying.

Thanks to its strategy of releasing continuous updates, WhatsApp has become a service that is much more than a platform to send or receive text messages . Currently, the Meta application has options that allow communication with audio messages, video clips, and it is even possible to make voice calls and video chats.

But it seems that WhatsApp does not stop working on the development of improvements for the functions that its platform already has , along with the incorporation of new functions. This was evidenced by a change recently suffered by the beta version of the popular instant messaging application for smartphones that use the Android operating system.

According to WABetaInfo, a portal specialized in filtering WhatsApp news, the app is testing a function associated with the new ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode, which would help prevent calls that a user receives through the popular application.

According to the website report, this option would work when a person tries to make a voice or video call. At that point, the service would show the user that they are receiving a call from a contact that has been marked ‘do not disturb’.

When this situation occurs, the screen will generate the message “Call/Video call missed during Do Not Disturb period”.

In addition to this, in the history of voice and video calls offered by the application , said contact will be shown with the special label “Muted by Do Not Disturb” , to indicate that this person tried to communicate via call.

Similarly, this new function would generate a notification that would go directly to the chat between the user and the person who wanted to communicate with him. This warning would indicate that communication is not possible at that moment , because the ‘Do not disturb’ function is activated.

According to what is known by WABetaInfo, this new option will not inform the person who made the call that their communication attempts have been blocked by the user. Since WhatsApp will not provide evidence to establish that the user activated the ‘do not disturb’ option, to prevent that contact from calling.

It should be reiterated that this new feature is currently only found in the beta version of WhatsApp for Android, therefore, it can only be used by some beta tester users, who will be able to find this novelty by accessing the app ‘s Settings menu .

Thus, for now it is not possible to determine when the ‘do not disturb’ function would be implemented in the official version of WhatsApp, since up to now the platform has not made an official statement on this tool.

WhatsApp tricks that are actually a hoax

A series of methods are also circulating in forums and social networks that, for example, promise special help to spy on other contacts and that in the end do not have the expected result.

Within the framework of this situation, publishes a brief list with some tricks for WhatsApp that turn out to be false, because they do not work properly.

Review another contact’s chats without accessing your account

Several users have found a series of alleged methods on social networks and forums that make it possible to review and have a backup copy of all the conversations that a contact has through the app . Usually these ‘hacks’ indicate that by installing a special application it will be possible to spy on all the chats of a person and also know what hours they are most active .

However, it is a strategy to encourage the download of paid applications and thus get the user to spend their money on a service that does not fulfill what it promises.

Remove the message “for everyone”, modifying the time

WhatsApp currently offers a time limit of approximately one hour to permanently delete a message that was published in an individual or group conversation. But, according to some forums, there is a means to alter this rule and thus be able to delete any message at the moment the user decides .

Supposedly, the key lies in changing the phone’s time, because in this way the instant messaging application will not notice the passage of time and therefore the block to delete messages sent to a chat would never be generated.

It must be clarified that this trick is totally false, since changing the time on the cell phone clock does not affect the recording of the times a message is published in a conversation .

Incognito mode to review stories, without losing the ability to know who is watching your own

Today the instant messaging app has the “Read confirmation” function, which when deactivated prevents other people from seeing their statuses and whether the messages they send to a chat have been read .

However, by disabling this option, the user also loses the ability to know who has reviewed their statuses or if a contact has read the message they shared in a conversation.

For this reason, the version circulates in which it is stated that by using the ‘airplane mode’ while keeping the read confirmation activated it is possible to look at the states and chats, without other people noticing the user’s actions.

However, this method is also bogus, and going into airplane mode to prevent other people from noticing that the user has been looking at their statuses is one way that won’t help at all.