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FOR WHATEVER REASON, you might not want people to know you’re online.
Maybe you want to check other messages without someone knowing you’re checking them, or maybe you’ve received a message from someone who isn’t in your contacts, and would rather them not knowing you’re online.
Whatever your reason, changing this is pretty simple. On both iOS and Android, go into WhatsApp itself and go to Settings > Account > Privacy.
Here you will see three different entries: Last Seen, Profile photo and Status. Tapping on any of these allows you to change it from everyone seeing it to just your contacts or nobody.
Remember that if you decide to turn off last seen entirely, you can’t see when anyone else was last online.
The other two options you have include blocked, which prevents specific people from being able to message or call you, and read receipts which is effectively the blue ticks you see when you open up a new message.
Much like the last seen option, turning this off means that you can’t see if the other person has read your message either.
Of course, you could always just keep them on and respond to messages when they come in, but where’s the fun in that?
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You’re getting paid to write this “article” ?? Fair play.
Ah great, that should help me out in life going forward. Next question.. Why are we floating about space on this rock.
Ffs same post from last week what’s next how to put your phone on silent, come up with something a bit better. A 10yr old knows that
Yes a repeat of the same post… Holy God what’s this site coming too… It’s slipping into the gutter… Clearly needs new direction this paper… Honestly does
Go one better and switch to using Signal or Threema. Two apps with end-to-end encryption and no server storage. Hackers and government snoopers be damned.
I think most people that are familiar with whatsapp know this already. From about 1-2 years ago
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