WhatsApp update: Meta-owned popular messaging application WhatsApp is working on tonnes of new features  to provide better experience to the users around the globe. In a bid to give more privacy to the users on its platform, WhatsApp recently rolled out new functionality that allows them to hide online status and display picture from everyone. 

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Thanks to the latest update, hiding WhatsApp display picture from specific contacts on the platform will be an easy task.

How to hide WhatsApp DP from specific contacts: Here are the steps that you can follow to hide your WhatsApp DP from particular contacts on the platform.

These steps are applicable for both iOS and Android users. 

- Open the WhatsApp app and tap on the three vertical dots in the top right corner

-  Settings>Account> Privacy>Profile Picture

- Now tap on the “My Contacts Except…”

- Now select contacts that you want to hide your DP from-

Tap on “Done” in the top right corner

Once you do that, these contacts will continue to receive messages from you normally, but they will not be able to see your WhatsApp display picture. In case you do not want unknown people to see your display, you can select the “Contacts Only” option. 

After this, users can also choose to delete the numbers of such unwanted contacts so that they no longer have access to your display picture. WhatsApp also allows users to hide their display picture from everyone if they want to.

Just like display picture, users now have a choice to hide their “last seen” status from individuals on the platform. You just need to follow the above-mentioned steps. According to WABetaInfo, this feature will come in a future update as it is under development so it cannot be released to beta testers since it is not ready.

 For a future version of the app, WhatsApp will let users follow a similar approach to the online toggle. This new privacy feature is being developed at the same time WhatsApp is also readying another important function, the ability to edit a message.