How to Stop Contacts From Adding You to Whatsapp Groups, How to protect yourself from being added to WhatsApp groups

WhatsApp Groups: WhatsApp Groups is a popular feature of Facebook’s instant messaging app WhatsApp. Earlier, any person who had your number saved could add you to the group, but users were troubled by the problem of being added to the group by another person without permission. After receiving feedback from WhatsApp users, WhatsApp has changed the group privacy settings to help its users get rid of this problem. New group privacy settings are now available for both WhatsApp for Android and WhatsApp for iPhone users. Today, through our article, we will give you information about how you can save yourself from the problem of being added to the group without your permission.

WhatsApp Group Privacy Settings: Enable it like this

Before giving you information about how you can enable these settings in your phone, make sure that your phone should have the latest version of WhatsApp. The version for Android should be 2.19.308 and for iPhone the version should be 2.19.112. for you android Google Play Store on and for iPhone app store page You can also update WhatsApp by visiting. After updating the app, follow the steps given below.

WhatsApp Groups on Android: Android users can change settings like this

If you are an Android user and you also face the problem of being frequently added to unwanted groups, then now you do not need to worry, you can solve this problem by just changing the settings mentioned below.

1) Open WhatsApp on your Android smartphone and then click on the three-dot icon on the top right side.
2) After this go to Settings > Account > Privacy.

3) After this tap on Group and then select any one of the options shown here: Everyone, My Contact and My Contacts Except.
4) If you select Everyone option, then any WhatsApp user will be able to make you a part of the group.
5) “My Contacts”. In this, only the administrators present in the user’s contact list will be able to make that user a part of the group.
6) If you select My Contacts Except option, only selected users will be able to add you to the WhatsApp group. Enabling this means that all group administrators will have to send an invitation to any user to make them a part of the WhatsApp group. However, the user will have to decide on this invitation within 72 hours.

WhatsApp Groups on iPhone: iPhone users can change settings like this

If you are an iPhone user and you also struggle with the problem of being frequently added to unwanted groups, then do not worry now, you can solve this problem by just changing the settings mentioned below.

1) First of all, open the WhatsApp app on iPhone and then click on the Settings option given in the bottom bar.
2) After this go to Account > Privacy > Groups.

3) After this, on the next screen you will get three options, Everyone, My Contact and My Contacts Except.