Add features of profile info in linphone to choose who can see my profile photo, last seen and status.

Components

Linphone is an open source android app which is used for communication purposes through messaging and audio/video calling.

Proposal

There are options available in the linphone like settings, assistant and about as shown in the image below.

I'm proposing that there should be a folder dedicated to the privacy of a user and name is as privacy. Here in you can decide who can see your profile photo, your last seen and status.
The privacy option should be made available alongside the options that are already present on linphone.
And the options for who can see my profile photo, last seen and status should be made available in the privacy option. I'll be giving examples on how these should look like in the next section.

Mockups / Examples

In the image below I've provided an example of how this should be implemented. I've placed it near the options already available to make it easy to use for the user.

After opening the privacy option you should get these options I've presented in the image below.

Benefits

The benefits of these options being implemented in future on linphone will be that you will be able to choose who can see your profile photo and also choose to hide if you don't want to share it with certain contacts. Similarly your status can be only seen by those who you wish to show it to.

• You can also stay offline while using the app after you have changed the settings in last seen option and kept to nobody.
• Privacy is the need in today's life and I think this will be a positive step if implemented.
• These improvements will make the app better to use and also attract more users which is always great for any application or software.
  I'd like to see these features enabled in linphone in future.
  Thanks

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