{"id":54286,"date":"2023-06-20T16:18:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=54286"},"modified":"2023-06-20T16:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:18:54","slug":"whatsapp-can-now-silence-calls-from-unknown-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2023\/06\/20\/whatsapp-can-now-silence-calls-from-unknown-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp can now silence calls from unknown numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WhatsApp\u2019s latest feature can automatically mute incoming calls if they\u2019re from an unknown number, the service announced today. The setting is available by going into WhatsApp\u2019s settings, hitting \u201cPrivacy,\u201d selecting \u201cCalls,\u201d and turning on the \u201cSilence Unknown Callers\u201d toggle. WhatsApp says the feature will help \u201cscreen out spam, scams, and calls from unknown people for increased protection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When enabled, the feature silences all signs of incoming calls from unknown numbers including both sound and visual alerts in the app. However, silenced calls will still appear in your recent calls list with a \u201csilenced unknown caller\u201d note next to them, in case you want to call back.<br><br>The Verge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp\u2019s latest feature can automatically mute incoming calls if they\u2019re from an unknown number, the service announced today. The setting is available by going into WhatsApp\u2019s settings, hitting \u201cPrivacy,\u201d selecting \u201cCalls,\u201d and turning on the \u201cSilence Unknown Callers\u201d toggle. WhatsApp says the feature will help \u201cscreen out spam, scams, and calls from unknown people for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":54287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54288,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54286\/revisions\/54288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}