If you were already planning to leave WhatsApp behind, but were worried about losing contact with important people, here's some good news: an app has emerged that sends an automatic reply that you no longer use the messenger. Watomatic, an open-source app exclusively for Android, responds to messages with a customizable text indicating that you've switched platforms.

Once installed, the watermatic requests access to your phone's notifications and allows you to reply to all WhatsApp messages with a programmed text macro. You can change the content of the reply whenever you want, and you can also choose not to send it to groups, thus avoiding spam.

So far, the app allows you to reply to two apps — WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Another feature, still in the testing phase, allows you to adjust the frequency with which the reply is triggered by Watomatic.

The developers are currently working on making automatic messages compatible with other apps, which is especially useful if you haven't decided yet. Who to exchange WhatsApp for. The source code of the program can be found on GitHub, and the application is now available for Play Store.

WhatsApp privacy changes expected to come into effect in the next few days

The auto-reply app comes just as WhatsApp's new privacy policy changes come into effect on May 15. From this date onwards, the messenger will share conversation data. with business accounts with advertisers on Facebook. Despite the controversies, the app is expected to continue with its privacy change even so.

As the date approaches, it is possible that more people will have information about consequences of change, so it remains to be seen what the users' reaction will be. As soon as Facebook announced the change, the download numbers for Telegram and Signal had considerable increases.

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