Here are listed 15 ‘critical’ features that we find missing in WhatsApp. These features can not only make WhatsApp a much better app but also improve its privacy overall.
1. WhatsApp Invisible Mode
This will allow you take a break from WhatsApp whenever you feel like. The user will be invisible to their contacts when they are actually online.
2. Hide profile picture from specific contacts
WhatsApp should give the option to hide profile picture from specific contacts. This will enable users to hide DP from official or business contacts when required.
3. Schedule Messages on WhatsApp
Won't it be nice to have a message scheduled in WhatsApp. This will be so handy for sending birthday greetings, official meetings invites, reminders and more.
4. Unknown contacts should need permission to send messages on WhatsApp
This feature will stop users from sending messages directly to the unknown contacts. When you turn on this feature, a user can only send a chat request to an unknown contact before sending the first message. Only if the chat request is accepted, the user can not send the message to the unknown contact.
5. Leave WhatsApp group without notifying other members
If you exit a WhatsApp group everyone gets to know through a notification. We should have an option to turn this off.
6. The option to mute a particular person in a WhatsApp Group
Instead of muting the entire group, there should be an option to mute specific contacts and stop getting notifications when they send some message in the group.
7. The ability to pin messages inside a group
Sometimes useful and important messages get lost in a group. An option to pin chats in a group may be really helpful.
8. Busy mode
In this mode the user will not receive any WhatsApp chats/ calls/ video calls for a selected time.