{"id":858912,"date":"2024-09-24T08:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T02:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=858912"},"modified":"2024-09-24T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T02:47:30","slug":"whatsapp-now-lets-you-block-messages-from-unknown-contacts-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/24\/whatsapp-now-lets-you-block-messages-from-unknown-contacts-but-theres-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp now lets you block messages from unknown contacts, but there\u2019s a catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can soon block messages from unknown contacts, as WhatsApp plans to bring a new update capable of doing so. According to WhatsApp\u2019s official blog the messaging platform\u2019s new update can keep you safe from unknown persons. <\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has started to roll out a feature that can block messages from unknown contacts. As of now the update is only available for Beta testers. The company aims to roll out the update soon on a larger scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can soon block messages from unknown contacts, as WhatsApp plans to bring a new update capable of doing so. According to WhatsApp\u2019s official blog the messaging platform\u2019s new update can keep you safe from unknown persons. WhatsApp has started to roll out a feature that can block messages from unknown contacts. As of now the update is only available for Beta testers. The company aims to roll out the update soon on a larger scale.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858912","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=858912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}