2 min learnNew DelhiUp to date: Feb 7, 2026 04:25 PM IST
WhatsApp has been periodically including new options to the app, making it greater than an on the spot messaging platform. Now, a brand new Instagram-like characteristic could also be making its strategy to the Meta-owned platform.
In line with the WhatsApp tracker WABetaInfo, Meta has reportedly launched a brand new characteristic that permits customers to create {custom} lists for standing updates, permitting them to organise contacts into curated lists.
Noticed on WhatsApp beta for Android 2.26.5.11, every listing features a group of contacts, a reputation and an emoji to distinguish between lists.
These custom-created lists is designed to avoid wasting WhatsApp customers from the effort of adjusting their share settings each time and forestall them from acceptable contacts. It additionally consists of an Instagram-like “Shut mates” listing, which lets customers share standing updates with their most popular contacts.
Right here’s what the interface seems to be like. (Picture Supply: WABetaInfo)
As you possibly can see within the picture above, to share a standing replace with shut mates, WhatsApp customers should select the contacts they wish to add to the listing. There are two methods of doing this: instantly including individuals from the standing replace privateness setting,s the place they’ll select contracts from a listing or modify the listing instantly from the standing interface.
Whereas customers can add or take away individuals from their shut mates listing at any time limit, the modifications will solely be mirrored within the subsequent standing replace. This implies if a consumer shares a standing replace with a sure listing and removes some customers later, they may nonetheless be capable of see the standing.
WhatsApp has additionally added three different privateness choices to share standing updates. As soon as an replace is shared, the chosen contacts will see completely different colored rings across the consumer’s profile image who shared the standing.
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The flexibility to share a standing replace with “Shut mates” is at the moment beneath improvement, with the publication claiming that it is going to be out there in a future model of WhatsApp.
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