How to Stop People from Adding You to Unnecessary WhatsApp Groups

WhatsApp Group is a great way to stay connected with all of your friends, followers,  business partners and many others.

And as we all know, WhatsApp is the most used and popular instant messaging app nowadays all around the world; and because of that, its developers need to keep updating it with cool features in other to satisfy their users.

One of the features that was recently added this year, was the one that allows a user to manage who can add him or her to a new WhatsApp group. As of before people keep adding you to some unwanted WhatsApp groups without your consent which you find it so annoying, but now you can finally choose if you want be in that group or not.

How to Prevent or Stop Someone from Adding You to WhatsApp Groups Without Your Consent

Well to enable this feature that allow you to prevent or stop someone from adding you to WhatsApp groups without your wish, you need to update your Whatsapp application to the latest version ( which you can do that through the App Store or Google Play ). But if you are using the latest updated WhatsApp application then just follow the below easy step to enable this feature.

Open your WhatsApp application and head to “Settings -> Account -> Privacy“.

Now, you will find a new option called “Groups“. You can choose among those three different options according to your wish.

•   Everyone: Just as it says, everyone can add you to a new group without your concern, including those who you don’t even have on your contact list.
•   My contacts: This Option permit only your contacts to add you to a new group without sending an invitation.
•   Nobody: If you have selected this option, you will be notify with an invitation link privately if someone wants you to join their group.

And that's all.

By doing this, you have stop people from adding you to new WhatsApp groups without blocking them in other for them not to add you in random WhatsApp groups that you don’t even know.

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Please Note: 

Even if you have selected your desire option as I have shown above, in other to stop Everyone from adding you in a new group, you will still receive private invitations that will last for three days, that is (72 hours) in other for you to decide either to join the group or not before it will automatically expire.

That's Really cool right?