WhatsApp will soon sort Status updates from contacts based on relevance

Two years ago, Whatsapp launched its story-based status feature to stay ahead of its competitors. The instant messaging app copied the status feature from Snapchat. The Status feature on Whatsapp has grown in popularity, riding on the number of users on the messaging platform.

Currently, the status feature on Whatsapp shows updates from family, friends, and all contacts in the reverse chronological order with the most recent one showing first even the contacts you hardly interact with. While you can mute status updates from people you don’t really care about, WhatsApp realised that they needed to update their feature to retain a sense of relevancy to the Status update list.