This will prevent random people from seeing your profile photos. About: About is what appears beneath your name in your contact's WhatsApp contact list. Its visibility can be also set to everybody, nobody or contacts.
Your status updates can only be seen by someone if you have their phone number in your phone's address book and they have your phone number in their phone's address book. You can choose to share your status updates with all your contacts or selected contacts only.
On an Android phone: Go to WhatsApp > Menu (the three dots on the upper right corner) > Settings > Account > Privacy > Last Seen. There you can change the setting so that this information is available to everyone, only to people in your contacts list, or to nobody at all.
You can better secure your WhatsApp account by following these tips:
- Never share your registration code or two-step verification PIN with others.
- Enable two-step verification and provide an email address in case you forget your PIN.
- Set a device code.
- Be aware of who has physical access to your phone.
--Open WhatsApp, go to the contact where you want to send the message, open it. --Type the message, hit the send button while WhatsApp is running in the background. --Turn off the Airplane mode. The message will be sent to the receiver without you appearing online.
WhatsApp launched the Read Receipt feature in 2014. It basically informs the users that their message has been read by the recipient. Since nobody today wants the other party to have an idea that he or she is available 24x7 on the chat app, many people have their Read Receipts turned off.
Being blocked by someone
- You can no longer see a contact's last seen or online in the chat window.
- You do not see updates to a contact's profile photo.
- Any messages sent to a contact who has blocked you will always show one check mark (message sent), and never show a second check mark (message delivered).
Go to WhatsApp Settings: Android: Tap More options > Settings > Account > Privacy > Groups. iPhone: Tap Settings > Account > Privacy > Groups. KaiOS: Press Options > Settings > Account > Privacy > Groups.
Go to Settings, click on 'Privacy' and turn off the Read receipts. Now, if you check someone's status, he or she will not be able to see your name on the list of people.
WhatsApp is changing. The messaging platform has now confirmed changes first announced in October, that open up further data sharing with Facebook. Even WhatsApp has no means of accessing content in transit, while the messages on your phone are protected by the security of your device.
The change number feature allows you to change the phone number associated with your WhatsApp account on the same or a new phone. Make sure your new phone number can receive SMS or phone calls and has an active cellular connection. Make sure your old phone number is currently registered on WhatsApp on your phone.
To turn off your read receipts, tap More options > Settings > Account > Privacy and turn off Read receipts.
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- Here is the step-by-step process to disable blue tick in WhatsApp:
- Open WhatsApp.
- Tap on More or three dots on the upper right-hand side.
- Select Settings.
- Select Account.
- Go to privacy and turn-off receipts.
Status allows you to share text, photo, video, and GIF updates that disappear after 24 hours. In order to send and receive status updates to and from your contacts, you and your contacts must have each other's phone numbers saved in your phones' address books.
You can grant permission by changing your iPhone's privacy settings.
- Go to iPhone Settings > Privacy.
- Tap Photos > WhatsApp > Read and Write.
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Apps & notifications. Default apps.
- Tap the default that you want to change.
- Tap the app that you want to use by default.
Log in to your Google account. Clear Google Play Store's cache by going to your phone's Settings. Then tap Apps & notifications > App info > Google Play Store > Storage > CLEAR CACHE.
Choose how much information you want to share with Microsoft by changing your privacy settings. On the Start menu, select Settings > Privacy. You'll see a list of general privacy options.
How to update WhatsApp on Android to the latest version
- Step 1: Open your Android phone and go to Play Store.
- Step 2: After that, tap on Menu option (three horizontal lines).
- Step 3: From the given options select My apps & games.
- Step 4: A new page will appear, here tap UPDATE next to WhatsApp Messenger.
Download WhatsApp Desktop
- In your computer's browser, go to the WhatsApp Download page, then download the .exe or . dmg file.
- Once the download is complete, open the .exe or . dmg file and follow the prompts to complete the installation.
All communications on WhatsApp will still be end-to-end encrypted by default, meaning that your messages and photos will still only be viewable by you and the users you're chatting with. And WhatsApp still won't be able to access any of your communications or share them with Facebook.
You can better secure your WhatsApp account by following these tips:
- Never share your registration code or two-step verification PIN with others.
- Enable two-step verification and provide an email address in case you forget your PIN.
- Set a device code.
- Be aware of who has physical access to your phone.
