WhatsApp Privacy: Nowadays people spend a lot of time on social media and share their posts and stories on social media, similarly WhatsApp has also made its own identity and has become a top-rated app. But even though WhatsApp is being used for significant business purposes, most of you must be using WhatsApp and you too must be worried about security and privacy in it.
So today we have brought four such amazing features for you, which protect your privacy, through these features you can give yourself full privacy, today we will try to tell you with the help of this article how you can turn on privacy in your WhatsApp account. So let’s know what the features are and how to use them.
1. How to hide your status
Many people are fond of putting a status on WhatsApp and many of you must have also put a status on WhatsApp. Still, due to privacy, you do not want to share your status with everyone, so for this also an amazing feature has been added to WhatsApp. With the help of this feature, you can show your status to those on your contact list.
Apart from this, if you do not want to keep your status private and want to share it with everyone, then you can share your status with all your contests or you can choose only those people to whom you want to share your status. If you are wondering how to turn on this setting. Or if you can turn it off, then let us tell you.
(1). For this, first of all, you have to open your WhatsApp app.
(2). After this you will see 3 dots above, click on it and go to the Settings option.
(3). After that you will get to see the option of privacy below, you have to click on it.
(4). After clicking on it, many options will open in front of you, you have to click on the status option.
(5). Here you will see three options My contacts, My contacts except, and Only share with, you can choose any of these options.
2. how to hide read receipts
If someone has sent a message to you and you have read that message but you do not want the person in front to know that you have read his message, then for that also an amazing feature has been given in WhatsApp. With the help of this feature, if someone sends you a message, it can be read without the person in front knowing and the sender of the message will not even know whether we have read his message. If you want to do this, then you have to disable this feature because when we download WhatsApp, we get this feature already enabled, so let’s know what you have to do to disable it.
(1). For this, first of all, you have to open your WhatsApp app.
(2). After this you will see 3 dots above, click on it and go to the Settings option.
(3). Now you will see the option of privacy, click on it.
(4). After this, many options will open in front of you, you have to close them by clicking on the read receipts option. Now if anyone sends a message to you, you can read that message without the other person knowing.
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3. How to hide your profile photo
If you want to hide your profile photo from people without removing it or you want that only your contacts can see your profile photo, then such an amazing picture has come in WhatsApp, let us tell you that earlier this feature was not added to WhatsApp. If you wanted to hide your profile photo, then you had to remove your photo, but with the help of this feature, you can hide your profile photo from people without removing it. If you want to use this feature, you must follow these steps.
(1). For this, first of all, you have to open your WhatsApp app. After that, you will see 3 dots above, click on them and go to the Settings option.
(2). Now you get to see the option of privacy, as soon as you click on it, many options open in front of you.
(3). You will get to see the option of profile photo below, as soon as you click on this option, you will see these four options Everyone, My contacts, My contacts except, and Nobody. In this way, you can hide your profile photo.
4. How to hide online status
Many times it happens that when we chat with someone, then we appear online for a long time to other users. If you do not want anyone to know that you are online, then to overcome this problem of users, WhatsApp has come up with a new feature, with the help of which you can hide your online status. That is, if you are online too, with the help of this feature, you can hide it and no one will even know that you are online on WhatsApp, if you want that you do not show online to anyone, then for this you have to follow these steps.
(1). If you have opened your WhatsApp app then you have to go to the Settings option and click on the Privacy option.
(2). Now many options will appear in front of you, you will see the option Last seen, and online at the top, you have to click on it.
(3). As soon as you click on it, many options open in front of you, and with the help of this feature, you can show or hide your last seen and online status.
