Whatsapp to support muting calls from unknown numbers
Technology has advanced well enough to bring up methods to prevent unknown numbers from prying into your privacy. A lot of social media apps as well as stock phone apps are putting features to avoid unknown numbers – Whatsapp is just doing the same. A new feature on WhatsApp will support muting calls from unknown numbers.
Further details on muting calls from unknown numbers via WhatsApp
Muting calls from unknown numbers have various advantages, including the ability to reduce interruptions and even eliminate spam calls. This is one problem of the WhatsApp community – Because the creator’s phone number is constantly public, he or she may be reached by anybody in the community. This is a severe dilemma since anyone, regardless of whether they have permission to do so, may call the founder of a group.
Thankfully, a new feature presently in development on WhatsApp beta for Android will come to the rescue: the option to quiet calls from unknown numbers. As seen in this screenshot(via wabetainfo), WhatsApp is hard at work on a new feature that will allow users to stop calls from unknown numbers in a future software update. The toggle will be found in the app settings, and if activated, calls from unknown numbers will always be hushed, but will still appear in the calls list and notification center.
This new function(muting calls from unknown numbers)may also help users dramatically reduce spam calls: in recent years, fraudsters and their unwanted calls have been a rising concern, and instant messaging applications are no exception.
Scammers may phone users to steal personal information or deceive them into making payments or supplying sensitive data through spam calls. WhatsApp, on the other hand, allows users to block and report these callers owing to this function. WhatsApp users may finally avoid getting calls from unknown numbers(which are frequently connected with spam calls)by muting them. The functionality to silence unknown calls is still under development and will be included in a future app version.