WhatsApp has just introduced many new important privacy features, including the online status blocking option as they recently showed off in beta. WhatsApp eventually aims to make the app as private and secure as face to face conversations, according to Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook post. The new online presence control tool basically lets users send Messages While appearing to be offline to every other user. This feature really adds another level of privacy for users over the ability to hide your lasting status from specific contacts, a feature introduced earlier this year.

Users can control the feature in the granular way, deciding which contacts can view your online status and which can’t. There are no limits to this and you could just swap people in and out at any time. This feature will be rolling out to every user across desktop and mobile later this month. WhatsApp will also start blocking screenshots with their new tests for view once messages that disappear after one single view. When those messages were introduced last year, the company said that users should take caution as no one would know if someone screenshot at them but this new feature that will let users block such screenshots is being tested by the company.

With another change, users can leave groups privately without sending out a mass notification to everyone else that you’re gone, though group admins will still be notified of this. That should save some awkwardness when it rolls out to the desktop and mobile apps later this month.