Meta-owned company, WhatsApp has reportedly testing a green dot to indicate that a contact is online for iOS. Earlier, this features was said to be under testing for Android, now it is being tested on iOS as well.
WhatsApp feature tracker WABetaInfo reported that this development was spotted on beta version 26.26.10.72 of WhatsApp for iOS.
The WhatsApp beta user on iOS can check the feature if they are using the latest version of the app. The green dot was seen as a small green circle at the bottom-right of a contactâs photo in the âContact infoâ screen. This green dot will become active if a contact comes online. This works in real-time, so the green circle will disappear when the contact is no longer online.
WABetaInfo reports that the âContact infoâ screen, opened by tapping a contactâs photo, is the only place the green dot is displayed for now. In our opinion, it would have been more useful if WhatsApp displayed it in the chats list and Chats tab.
Itâs also worth noting that WhatsApp applies the same privacy rules to the green dot as it does to last seen and online status, meaning that if a user has chosen to hide their last seen and online status from others, the green dot wonât be visible either.
This green dot online status indicator feature is currently only available to some beta users on both Android and iOS, and itâs unclear when WhatsApp will release it publicly for all users.
