How to delay WhatsApp from showing photos of unknown profiles
During this week the news that WhatsApp could be included in the platform Android have been known soon. Issues that range from functionality with a new widget to quickly access the camera or the possibility of paying a friend to renew the service, to touching on other points such as privacy. And precisely this is being the most controversial point by preventing users from seeing the profile picture of their contacts who have not added them to the agenda.
At the moment all these new features arrive in the beta version of WhatsApp for Android That is, in a version of test that the company itself has distributed through its website to test the changes and polish the bugs before launching it to the general public through Google Play That is why, to avoid this privacy feature as much as possible, it is advisable not to update the application for the moment, avoiding the news that WhatsApp introduces in the new version. At least not to the beta version, as there is no official new version yet via Google Play
Currently WhatsApp version beta has reached the number 2.11.63 , and it contains all the news mentioned, while the latest official version released by Google Play remains at number 2.11.52 To consult this question, simply access the menu Settings from the Chat screen and enter About, where the current version installed in the terminal is reported. Meanwhile, if you want to continue being able to see the profile picture of other users, all you have to do is hold on to version 2.11.52 as long as possible, until a new update is released and forces the user to force-install it.
But what happens if the user has wanted to try the news of the vbeta version of WhatsApp and wants to go back to the previous version ? The process is simple and, for now, reversible The first thing to do is perform a saving of messagesto not lose any information along the way. To do this, just enter the menu Chat settings and click on Save conversations
After a period that can take around a minute, just go to Google Play, search for WhatsApp and uninstall the application When the process ends, all the versions of the application are uninstalled, being able to reinstall fromGoogle Play the official version numbered as 2.11.52 that still allows to see the photo of a user with just add your number to the contact book. During the installation process it is necessary to confirm the phone number of the user as well as install backupof messages made to return to having all the conversations as they were before. With this, it is now possible to wait until the new update forces the user to update.
All this assuming that the new version of WhatsApp includes the controversial privacy measure. And it is that we must not lose sight of the fact that it is a test version, being able to receive complaints from users and avoid introducing it in the new official version. Something that only time will confirm.
Update:
Apparently, and awaiting official confirmation, this supposed privacy measure that avoids showing the photos of contacts that are not have added our phone number to their phonebook, it is not a measure associated with the new version that WhatsApp is preparing for the platform Android According to a good number of users, the profile images of their contacts are disappearing without updating your appThis indicates that said measure would have been applied directly through the servers of this messaging service, affecting all available versions Being delayed in some cases because the images of the contacts are stored in the terminal Therefore, it seems like a measure unstoppable, even reinstalling old versions of WhatsApp
