WhatsApp Will Show Users Of Your Contacts Has Been Online Recently

WhatsApp has been working on new features that encourage Proactive Conversations with new people. In many parts of the world, Whatsapp has become the primary app for calling and instant messaging Around the world. Most of the users use it for all kinds of communication. WhatsApp wants to encourage people to have more proactive conversations. New feature will allow users to talk to their recent online contacts.

WABetaInfo has reported several features in WhatsApp beta releases that would help proactive conversations. For example, WhatsApp is said to be working on a feature that suggests contacts to chat with. At the bottom of the main chats list a new section will suggest new contacts from the user’s address book that they can start chatting with. This section could suggest users to talk to people they haven’t talked to before on this platform.

WABetaInfo also reported that the app could list recent online contacts. When a user go to his contacts list to add people to a call, he will see a few recent online contacts that he hasn’t interacted with. This suggested list reportedly respects the user’s privacy setting on their online status. But still it is very helpful to know if someone has been recently online before users place a call.

It is a proactive move from WhatsApp to engage users to use the app to call less frequent users. interesting to see the instant messaging app focus on proactive communications. Apps like Telegram notify users in their main chat list whenever a new contact joins the app, which is very annoying. WhatsApp doesn’t do this, but if these leaked features come to fruition, then you could brace yourself from hearing from people you haven’t spoken to in a while.