WeChat's latest version 8.0.16 is now available, and WeChat ads can finally be turned off

Just now, the official WeChat team pushed the latest 8.0.16 official version, which added two new features. Among them, the WeChat ads that users have long disliked can finally be turned off.

After Xiaoyu's first-hand testing, he summarized the new features added to the official version of WeChat 8.0.16 and gave a detailed introduction.

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WeChat ads can finally be turned off

As we all know, there are a lot of ads in the current version of WeChat. Whether it is the Moments or the "Take a Look", there are a lot of ads, and these ads are highly relevant to you. Just when you were searching for a product, you would see related ads in WeChat in a short while. This is mainly based on WeChat's "personalized recommendation" mechanism. Many people are therefore worried that their personal information in WeChat will be leaked.

In the official version of WeChat 8.0.16, WeChat has made clear requirements on the use of "personal information and permissions" and provided corresponding management entrances.

After updating to the latest version of WeChat 8.0.16, go to "Me-Settings-Privacy" in sequence, and you can see a new "Personal Information and Permissions" function entrance at the bottom of the page.

After entering, specific management contents are displayed, including system permission management, authorization management, personalized advertising management, and personal information browsing and exporting.

System permission management mainly displays the system permissions that WeChat has been authorized to use, such as location information, phone, storage, camera, floating window, etc. If you find irrelevant system authorization here, you can go directly to the system settings to change it with one click.

The authorization management lists the third-party applications or APP information that have been logged in with WeChat, so that your third-party authorization is clear at a glance. If you do not want to continue to authorize these apps to log in with WeChat, you can also revoke the authorization here.

A switch is set in the personalized advertising management. If you don't want to accept personalized advertising services, you can click the corresponding button to turn it off. However, according to WeChat, this only turns off the relevance of ads and does not reduce the number of ads. But Xiaoyu thinks that this will reduce the problem of personal information leakage during the use of WeChat to a certain extent, which is also a good feature.

The personal information browsing and exporting function displays all the personal information in the current WeChat account, including nickname, avatar, WeChat ID, personal address, logged-in devices and other sensitive information in WeChat, and also supports one-click export, which is very convenient.

The above are the 4 functions in the "Personal Information and Permissions" in the latest version of WeChat. They are all functions that are highly related to WeChat personal privacy and are quite practical.

WeChat Sports can be set as status directly

In the beta version a few days ago, the WeChat official team conducted a grayscale beta test of this feature among some users, and it is finally fully open in this official version.

When you enter WeChat Sports, you can see that the WeChat step ranking position of the previous day not only shows your ranking and specific number of steps, but also a new "Set status" function entrance in the lower right corner.

After clicking, you can directly jump to the WeChat status setting page. The status content is "Travel thousands of miles", and the description of the status automatically adds the number of steps taken in the current WeChat. If there is not much content to express, you can directly post this WeChat status, which is very convenient.

This is the WeChat status after the release.

In addition, the “disband WeChat group” function in the beta version a few days ago has also been retained, which is very useful for users who frequently manage WeChat groups.

In addition, some app stores have not yet launched the official version of WeChat 8.0.16, so Xiaoyu can also provide you with the download address of this software for free. If you need it, you can follow the computer and mobile phone things and send a private message with the words [Internal Test] to quickly get the download address of the official version of WeChat 8.0.16.

In general, judging from the content of the official version update of WeChat 8.0.16, as a national social application software with a huge number of users, WeChat has also made great efforts to prevent personal privacy leaks and set an example for other application software.