WhatsApp will start next week to impose a series of restrictions for some of the more than 2 billion people who use its messaging platform worldwide every month. Everything is part of the set of measures that WhatsApp imposes against those who refuse to accept the new terms and conditions of use of the platform, which will come into force starting on May 15, and are mandatory for users around the world.
WhatsApp was at the center of a huge scandal at the beginning of this year because of these terms and conditions, but the company refused to give up on them completely, so that from May 15 it will start to strictly enforce them. WhatsApp says that from May 15, a notification like the one in the image below will be displayed in the iPhone and Android application, asking people to accept its new terms and conditions of use for the platform, without it being able to be closed.
WhatsApp: Official, Restrictions Imposed on 2 Billion People
WhatsApp will block the possibility of using the application without accepting those terms, so that its users will be able to accept incoming phone calls or respond to messages in conversations. Accessing a notification with a message from a friend will open that conversation and allow the discussion to continue, but the rest of the WhatsApp sections will be unavailable to users, including if they open the application without accessing a notification.
WhatsApp will basically remain with two basic functions, but only if people are contacted, because otherwise they will not be able to contact anyone they want, which will surely annoy a lot of people. WhatsApp takes this measure because not everyone has accepted the new terms and conditions of use for its platform, and their acceptance is important because it gives the Facebook company access to some data from the messaging platform that it also owns.
WhatsApp will further restrict access to its application in a few more weeks, but for now no deadline has been set for when it wants to impose this as well.
