{"id":845975,"date":"2024-08-20T07:20:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=845975"},"modified":"2024-08-20T07:25:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:55:43","slug":"whatsapp-tests-feature-to-block-messages-from-unknown-numbers-how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/20\/whatsapp-tests-feature-to-block-messages-from-unknown-numbers-how-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp tests feature to block messages from unknown numbers: How it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature to enhance user protection by blocking messages from unknown contacts. Called \u201cBlock messages from unknown accounts\u201d, the feature is expected to block messages from contacts not saved in the users\u2019 phone. <\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp update tracker, WABetaInfo, discovered the feature and noted that not all messages from unknown accounts will be blocked\u2014only those exceeding a certain threshold. The feature was reportedly spotted in the WhatsApp beta for Android version 2.24.17.24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature to enhance user protection by blocking messages from unknown contacts. Called \u201cBlock messages from unknown accounts\u201d, the feature is expected to block messages from contacts not saved in the users\u2019 phone. WhatsApp update tracker, WABetaInfo, discovered the feature and noted that not all messages from unknown accounts will be blocked\u2014only those exceeding a certain threshold. The feature was reportedly spotted in the WhatsApp beta for Android version 2.24.17.24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}