WhatsApp has introduced a host of features aimed at helping protect the information they give away. The new update comes with three main features: users will be able to leave group chats more quietly and set specific controls on who can see when a user is online. But perhaps the most significant is a new tool that will block people from taking screenshots when messages are sent using the “View Once” feature, which means they will disappear after being seeing. That tool, unlike the others, is still in testing and will arrive soon.

Currently, when a user leaves a group chat a notification appears at the bottom of the conversation telling others in the group who has left.

And while users are already able to turn off a feature which tells others if they have read a message, it has not been possible until now to hide the fact that a user was online and using WhatsApp.

But in a post announcing the WhatsApp update, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said: “We will keep building new ways to protect your messages and keep them as private and secure as face-to-face conversations.”

Ami Vora, WhatsApp‘s head of product, said the platform was focused on building features that “empower people to have more control and privacy over their messages”.