WhatsApp rolling out List Recent Online Contacts feature for beta testers

WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature called List Recent Online Contacts. Users can effortlessly initiate conversations with those they have recently engaged with using the Recent Online Contact feature.

Today I am explaining to you about WhatsApp’s new Recent Online Contacts option. You have to read this post till the end to know more about the meta-owned messaging app Recent Online contacts feature.

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WhatsApp Recent Online Contacts feature

The new feature has been discovered on the Android beta version 2.24.9.14. There is a new section within the contacts lists to list recent online contacts. It is a momentum feature for users to connect with their friends, family, and colleagues who are presently active or have been online recently.

This feature doesn’t provide a comprehensive online list of all contacts, it effectively simulates such functionality by showing a limited number of recent active contacts. It will display a limited number of recent active contacts when the user attempts to select contacts to place a call with another contact.

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The new Recent Online Contacts feature adds a layer of convenience to the messaging experience by eliminating the need for users to check the activity status of multiple contacts manually.

One of the important things is to note that this new feature prioritizes users’ privacy, as contacts who have disabled their last seen and online will still have this information hidden from this list, ensuring that users’ preferences regarding privacy are always respected.

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The new feature to list recent online contacts is rolling out for the Android beta testers. It is available on the Android beta version 2.24.9.14. However, some users experiment with the same feature in the previous beta version 2.24.9.12.

While the meta-owned messaging app has rolled out the new chat filter feature. Users can filter their conversations and find the most important chats and messages quickly without scrolling through the entire chat list. This feature has three chat filter options and works like Google’s Gmail.

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