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How To Hide Online Status On WhatsApp? Here's A Step-By-Step Guide

One thing to remember is that if you hide your last seen and online status from others, you too won’t be able to see the last seen and online status for those contacts.

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WhatsApp has become one the most widely used and reliable platforms for messaging. The Meta-owned app allows communication through text, voice and video messages. If you are a regular user of the app, you may have sometimes felt the desire to hide your online status from other users.

The online status of a user is visible just below their name on the messaging app. So long as you are on the app, you are visible as "Online" to your contacts and the people you have messaged.

So, what should you do if you want to hide your online status on WhatsApp from other people? WhatsApp offers several features to protect your privacy, and hiding your online status lets you hide your last seen message and online status. You can use the feature for all or select contacts.

This privacy feature allows you to decide who can see your online status and who can’t. Here’s a step-by-step guide that shows how you can hide your online status on WhatsApp.

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Steps To Hide Your Online Status on WhatsApp

  1. Open WhatsApp on your phone.

  2. If you are an Android user, go to the top right corner and tap on the icon with three vertical dots. Now tap on “Settings” and go to “Privacy”.

  3. On an iPhone, you need to tap on “Settings” and go to “Privacy”.

  4. Tap on “Last seen and online”.

  5. Under “Who can see my last seen”, you can see four options: “Everyone”, “My contacts”, “My contacts except…”, and “Nobody”. You can select any one option as per your requirement.

  6. Under “Who can see when I’m online”, two options are available: “Everyone”, and “Same as last seen”. Choose between these two options to set your preference.

One thing to remember is that if you hide your last seen and online status from others, you too won’t be able to see the last seen and online status for those contacts. Further, whenever you are typing on WhatsApp, respective users will be able to see that you are typing.

Similarly, if you turn off the read receipts on WhatsApp, it will not be possible for you to see the read receipts of other users. However, the read receipt option is always on for group chat. Thus, whenever someone sends a message to a WhatsApp group, they can always check who has read the message and who hasn’t, irrespective of whether an individual user has turned off their read receipt status.

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