Being the most used messaging app worldwideit now has more than one and a half billion users to its credit.
Secretly read a message, send photos that disappear, hide new text messages arriving on the screen of your Smartphone… this instant messenger offers options for more discretion and confidentiality in your talks. On this subject, here are 5 settings to know.
Hide status, profile picture and last login
You probably don’t always want your contacts to see you online or that you’ve seen their latest messages. And for reasons that concern you, you want to hide your profile picture. To hide your data, you should go to ” Settings “. Then click on ” Account », then on « Privacy “. Thus, you can filter the people authorized to see your information: “no one”, “just your contacts” or “everyone”.
Some of the information you can hide includes:
The mention “seen at”,
- Your status,
- Your news (at work, busy, available, etc.).
Read a message without the contact knowing
When you receive an SMS, the recipient of the latter will know by default when you have read it thanks to the validation indications (blue for message read, gray for message deposited). In addition, in the “Info” menu that you can open by pressing and holding your sms, you can even check in detail who has already read and who has not yet read your message in the group.
Also read: Whatsapp scam: Protect your account!
Do you want to access a conversation and read the last sms from your interlocutor without showing the blue checkmarks? Before opening the chat, just put your phone in airplane mode. Awesome, right?
Hide new messages that arrive on the screen of your Smartphone
If you do not want new text messages to appear on your device screen, you can minimize the pop-up appearing on your phone. How to proceed ?
First, if you use a iPhonego to “ Settings ” (from the phone and not from WhatsApp), then in “ Notifications “. Then choose the WhatsApp application from the list and after clicking on the menu “ Show Previews », select « Never ».
However, if you use a Androidyou go to “Manage Notifications » after choosing « Settings ” (from the phone and not from WhatsApp) and “ Notifications ». Then select the WhatsApp application in the list. Finally, you just have to check the button ” Hide notification details on the lock screen. Note that these indications may vary from one Android phone to another.
Send a photo that disappears
In this case, you must touch the ” + to add an image to your message. Then, select the photo and touch the ” 1 with a dotted line to the left of the blue send button. Then press ” Mail ».
Hide your last connection to the application
The app can tell your contacts when you last logged in. Fortunately, you can deactivate this function, and navigate hidden!
To do this, go to ” WhatsApp Settings “, in the menu ” Account “, in ” Privacy » and finally in the menu « Seen at “. It’s up to you to choose what you prefer as a parameter. However, note that if you delete this information for your contacts, you will not be able to see this information on them either.
Video tutorial to be invisible on Whatsapp
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