WhatsApp has introduced a new feature to automatically silence calls from unknown numbers. This comes after multiple customers in India, the chat app’s biggest market with more than 500 million users, have complained about an increase in spam calls in the last few months.
On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg announced the call silencing feature along with a new privacy checkup option.
“You can now automatically silence incoming calls from unknown contacts on WhatsApp for even more privacy and control,” he said.
Users will be able to turn on this option by going to Settings > Privacy > Calls and selecting the “Silence unknown caller” option. WhatsApp said that while calls from unknown numbers will be automatically silenced they will show up in notifications and the app’s call list. This is in case you want to check later if it was from someone you know but don’t have their number ...
