Today, May 15 is the deadline for users to agree to the controversial WhatsApp new privacy policies. Users who do not agree to the terms will lose their accounts, but this will not necessarily happen immediately.

How to avoid banning your account?

The good news is that users who did not accept the new WhatsApp policies by the deadline of May 15 still had a chance to keep their accounts working.

The WhatsApp website affirms, "Nobody's accounts will be deleted or features in the application will be lost on May 15 due to this update."

She also stressed that your chats and account will not be deleted after May 15th.

If you don't accept the terms, you'll still have weeks and lots of reminders to accept before you lose jobs in your WhatsApp account.

After this point, the reminders will become persistent and difficult to ignore, then you will find that you can hardly use the application until you accept the update, and the WhatsApp website states that this will not happen to all users at the same time.

And WhatsApp explained, "After a few weeks of limited jobs, you will not be able to receive incoming calls or notifications, and WhatsApp will stop sending messages and calls to your phone."

At this point, you will have no choice but to click Accept on the new WhatsApp Terms or face not using your account again.

WhatsApp's first attempt to explain its new policies led to millions of users downloading competing chat apps (Anadolu Agency).

What are the new WhatsApp policies?

WhatsApp's first attempt to explain its new policies led millions of users to download rival chat apps, with many of them deleting the app completely.

The company gave users a deadline until May 15th to click "accept", or face a ban on entering their WhatsApp accounts.

The new policies relate to correspondence with companies, but it was not explained well at first.

WhatsApp admitted that the information it released was extremely confusing, which is why it revised the deadline for "accepting the terms" from February to this May.

The privacy of personal conversations will not change, instead the new policy update focuses on business features, with about 175 million people messaging a WhatsApp Business account every day, and this number is increasing, so the policy change will affect a large number of users. .

But even if you don't send a message to business accounts, you'll still need to accept the new terms.

You can verify the information through the option to "get more information" from the pop-up window that takes you directly to the WhatsApp website.