{"id":85756,"date":"2016-02-19T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=85756"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:04:26","slug":"many-users-will-want-to-uninstall-whatsapp-when-they-discover-this-new-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/many-users-will-want-to-uninstall-whatsapp-when-they-discover-this-new-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Many users will want to uninstall WhatsApp when they discover this new feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy. Nobody likes it when someone invades theirs. There&#8217;s nothing worse in life than getting home and someone asking you: &#8220;<strong>Where have you been?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well if the rumors are true, <strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> will be the next one to ask you this annoying question. The bad news is that you don&#8217;t need to answer &#8211; you&#8217;re mobile will blow your cover for you.<\/p>\n<p>A recent leak shows that <strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> may be working on a new feature that would reveal the recent places you have been. But where&#8217;s the proof? Well, take a look at this recent screenshot from WhatsApp&#8217;s translation center:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85757\" title=\"55-2-2cb9c3a87f49306fbf6e955781bb5885\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/55-2-2cb9c3a87f49306fbf6e955781bb5885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/55-2-2cb9c3a87f49306fbf6e955781bb5885.jpg 697w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/55-2-2cb9c3a87f49306fbf6e955781bb5885-256x183.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/55-2-2cb9c3a87f49306fbf6e955781bb5885-568x407.jpg 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This means that<strong> WhatsApp<\/strong> will always know where you are. The problem is that we don&#8217;t know any more details about what they plan to do with that information. Will it be<strong> optional<\/strong>? Will it let the other users know where we are? There&#8217;s only one thing we know for sure &#8211; <strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> is about to join the long list of apps that\u00a0<strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adslzone.net\/2016\/02\/18\/whatsapp-tambien-quiere-saber-donde-has-estado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ADSL Zone<\/a> (Spanish website)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy. Nobody likes it when someone invades theirs. There&#8217;s nothing worse in life than getting home and someone asking you: &#8220;Where have you been?&#8221; Well if the rumors are true, WhatsApp will be the next one to ask you this annoying question. The bad news is that you don&#8217;t need to answer &#8211; you&#8217;re mobile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/many-users-will-want-to-uninstall-whatsapp-when-they-discover-this-new-feature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Many users will want to uninstall WhatsApp when they discover this new feature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":85759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-85756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329289,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85756\/revisions\/329289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85756"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=85756"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=85756"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=85756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}