Silence Unknown Calls on WhatsApp: If you have also been troubled by calls coming from unknown numbers on WhatsApp, then enough is enough, spam and scam calls from unknown numbers are troubling everyone every day. Keeping this in mind, the company has given a useful feature in the settings of the app which can save you from this problem. The name of this WhatsApp feature is Silence Unknown Callers, this feature is available for both Android and iPhone users. After turning on this feature, if there is no number saved in your phone and if a call comes from that number then you do not have to do anything, this feature will do all the work and the phone will not ring when a call comes from that unknown number.
Android users can turn on this feature like this
- Open WhatsApp on the phone. After opening the app, tap on the three dots in the top right corner, here you will get the Settings option. Click on Settings.
- Go to the Privacy section in Settings, here you will get the facility to access privacy related controls.
- Scroll down until you find the Calls option, then tap it.
- After this, tap on the Silence Unknown Callers option to turn on the feature.
As soon as you turn on this feature by following the steps mentioned above, this feature will silence the WhatsApp calls coming from unknown numbers so that you are not disturbed but the thing to note is that the company will show these missed calls in the calls tab.
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iPhone users can turn on the feature like this
- Open WhatsApp on iPhone.
- Go to the Settings tab at the bottom of the screen.
- Click the Privacy section to access privacy controls in Settings.
- Now, open the calls option and in this section you will find the Silence Unknown Callers option, you just have to turn on this feature.
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