WhatsApp, in its previous update, came up with another interesting feature ‘Read Receipts‘ which marked your message with double blue tick marks if it’s been read by you. This feature proved out to be a bliss for a few, but a piece of agony for many of you. Many people felt like they are losing control over their privacy.
To your rescue, WhatsApp has came up with a new update (Version 2.11.444) that lets you control whether to add those blue tick marks to the message, if you read it. With this update, you get an option under Settings > Privacy menu, where you can choose if you want to send ‘read receipts’ to your chatting partner or not. Also, if you disable ‘read receipts’, you won’t be able to receive blue tick marks for any message you send, and is read by the recipient of the message. Group conversations remain unaffected. All the group members will still get to know if the message in the group has been read by you.
Read receipts can be enabled/disabled from the Settings > Privacy menu.
This update is not yet available on the Play Store, but you can download it from the official WhatsApp website or wait till the latest update to the app make its way to the Play store.
iShivam 