WhatsApp will no longer ‘harass’ videos and pictures from here and there

Media visibility feature has now come in WhatsApp Android, which can also be applied for any specific chat. This is part of a feature that arrived on the old WhatsApp beta last month, which was not in the latest version of the app. This feature will prevent the user from accessing the media content of WhatsApp in the user’s gallery. With its help, you can prevent media files coming from any one person or group from going into the phone’s gallery. This new experience can be availed in beta version 2.18.194 of WhatsApp.

Earlier this month, the feature of labeling of forwarded messages was given in the new beta version of WhatsApp Android. The Facebook-owned company has recently started group video and voice calling support, which will benefit Android beta users.

While last time the media visibility setting was in the Data and Storage Usage setting, now it has been brought in ‘Contact Info’ and ‘Group Info’. This means that the user can also hide media files sent from a single contact. For this, the user has to go to the contact info and tap Media Visibility – No for that contact. Keep in mind, media visibility will already be on by default for contacts and groups.

Earlier, the Media Visibility feature gave the option to ‘Hide’ and ‘Show’ all contacts simultaneously. It came in beta version 2.18.194 of WhatsApp. However, WhatsApp quietly removed it in the previous version.

As per WhatsAppinfo report, the media visibility feature is live for WhatsApp beta version 2.18.194. The updated version of WhatsApp Beta can be downloaded under the Google Play Beta program. Also the APK file can be downloaded from APK Mirror.