How to hide your ‘Online’ status on WhatsApp: Step-by-step guide for iOS, Android users – Economic Times
WhatsApp has finally rolled out the update that lets you hide your active status on the instant messaging platform. Several times we wish to check our messages on WhatsApp without alerting the contacts of our online activity or appear as active on the app and the Meta-owned platform’s this update so…….
WhatsApp has finally rolled out the update that lets you hide your active status on the instant messaging platform. Several times we wish to check our messages on WhatsApp without alerting the contacts of our online activity or appear as active on the app and the Meta-owned platform’s this update solves that problem.
Though the social network had already rolled out an update to hide your ‘Last Seen’ – the timestamp revealing the last time you were active on the app – from select contacts, it didn’t let WhatsApp users hide their ‘online’ status on the platform.
The ‘Online’ status on WhatsApp appears right below the person’s contact name on chat the moment he or she opens the instant messaging app. As long as you are on WhatsApp, even if just scrolling, you appear as ‘Online’ to your contacts.
But thanks to WhatsApp’s latest update, that’s about to change and people can no longer stalk your online presence on the platform as users now have the option to hide their online status from all or select contacts.
On WhatsApp, the tech company by default allows any user to see your last seen and online status until changed manually.
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How To Hide Your Online Status On WhatsApp
- For Android users, open your WhatsApp, then click on Tap More options and select Settings
- Now click on Privacy. You will get options on Last Seen & Online. Click on that and choose the preferred option.
- For iOS users, open WhatsApp then click on Settings options given below on the right side of your screen.
- Tap on Account, then select Privacy. You’ll also see the similar Last Seen & Online option.
- Tap on that and select any option from: Everyone, My Contacts, My Contacts Except… and Nobody.
What All You Can Change Who Can:
- See your Last Seen and Online
- See your Profile Photo
- See your About information
- See your Status updates
- See Read Receipts
- Add you to Groups
However, it is important to note that if you don’t share your Last Seen or Online, you won’t be able to see other users’ Last Seen or Online. People online in a chat thread with you can see when you’re typing.
If you turn off ‘Read Receipts’, you won’t be able to see Read Receipts from other users. But Read Receipts are always sent for Group Chats. If a contact has turned off Read Receipts, you won’t be able to see if they’ve viewed your status updates.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp now also lets users connect with up to 32 people simultaneously on voice and video calls, transfer up to 2 GB files and add as many as 5,000 members in a Community.
The messaging platform will also be gradually enhancing group size to 1,024 users, from the limit of 512 currently.
