Post actualizado el día September 27, 2026 by DeiviSanzPlay
On WhatsApp, “, and the one that restricts a or, with the changes of . If you’re one of those who forwards chains to 50 contacts or uses bots, the app restricts your account . You can’t talk to anyone new for a while, only reply to those you already had. It’s like digital house arrest . The curious thing is that many people receive this limitation without knowing what they did wrong, and of course, they think it’s a technical glitch. But no, it’s WhatsApp telling you “relax, it’ll pass, but for now you stay quiet” .
Then there’s the other type of restriction, the one you control to protect your privacy . This is new this year. Now you can activate something called “Advanced Chat Privacy” in conversations to their gallery or pass them on to someone else by email . This option is great for groups where you don’t fully trust the members but you need to be there.
What nobody tells you is that restricting is not the same as archiving. Archiving is hiding the trash under the rug. Restricting, on the other hand, is putting a lock on the door. If you’re the admin of a group and you activate this, you block Meta’s AI from using those messages to train itself or someone from taking heavy files without permission . It’s a fine control measure, not just about tidiness.
Personally, I think normal people confuse these two concepts because the word “restrict” sounds like a prohibition. But in one case they prohibit you, and in the other you prohibit others. The key is who presses the button. If WhatsApp does it automatically, bad (you’ve been spamming) . If you do it manually in the group settings, then you’re smart and you protect your information. And watch out, even if you activate privacy, it doesn’t prevent someone from taking a screenshot behind your back, they leave that for future versions . So don’t trust it completely either.
