Throughout this article, we’ll give you valuable tips on how to hide online status on WhatsApp.
If you’re reading these lines, chances are that you’ve been using WhatsApp for quite a while.
Like you, more than 2 million around the globe are working with it too.
WhatsApp is the most used messaging app and has been experiencing remarkable growth since it was released in 2009.
It is being used by big companies, students, and also regular people of all ages for regular daily chatting.
This messenger runs on Android and iOS mobile devices. Besides, you can also access it from your computer.
There is a convenient web version of the messenger that you can use on your PC as long as your phone remains connected to the network while you’re using the app.
WhatsApp Web can be run by accessing https://web.whatsapp.com on your web browser or through a dedicated Windows or Mac application you can download directly from the WhatsApp website.
This awesome app offers a lot of customization options, and privacy features, including the ability to hide your last seen online status, and hide reading receipts among others.
Unfortunately, there is not a straightforward way to hide your online status, although there are some alternative ways you can do it!
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How to hide your Online status on WhatsApp
Hiding your online status may be important to protect your privacy for numerous reasons. And we understand how that may be important for you,
WhatsApp allows anyone to hide the “Last Seen online” status, however, if you are online at the moment someone is checking, you’ll be shown as “Online” and the messenger by itself doesn’t let its users hide that information.
Every time you are reading content or writing a message to someone on WhatsApp, you’ll appear online to your contacts, it’s a fact.
Also, when using WhatsApp Web on your computer, your status will also show as “Online” whenever the WhatsApp window is active.
How to hide your WhatsApp Last Seen and Online
Last Seen
We’ll start this tutorial with the steps you should follow to hide the “Last Seen” status.
WhatsApp lets you do it natively and the procedure is very straightforward.
Keep in mind that this method will only hide the information showing when was the last time you were online:
- Start by opening the WhatsApp application on your phone;
- Tap the three-dot icon at the top-right of the screen;
- Select “Settings”;
- Under “Settings” select “Account”, and then “Privacy”;
- In the “Privacy” menu tap “Last seen”;
- There you have 3 options to choose from. Select “Nobody”, so nobody, inside or outside your contacts list is now able to see when you’re on WhatsApp the last time.
Now, no one will be able to see the last time you were active on WhatsApp.
Bear in mind that if you select to hide your “Last Seen” status from everyone, you won’t be able to see other contacts “Last Seen” status as well.
Online
As we’ve stated above, the messenger does not provide an option to allow users to hide when they are actively online using the app.
However, there are some tricks you can follow to read and reply to messages without appearing online:
- Put your phone into “Airplane mode” to cut any data and network connectivity;
- Open WhatsApp messenger. Now you can read and even reply to all messages, check statuses, etc. without appearing online;
- Close WhatsApp and wait for about 10 seconds;
- You can now disable “Airplane mode” on your phone to re-establish its connectivity.
Using this method, even your “Last Seen” status will remain unchanged.
So, if you have the “Last Seen” visible, no one will notice you were active on WhatsApp and even replying to messages.
If you’re willing to know how to hide online on WhatsApp in a more convenient way, there are also some available third-party apps that can help you hide your “Online” status. “WhatsApp GB” is one of the best known.
It’s a sort of a WhatsApp modder and enhancer that adds a lot of features, one of them being the ability to hide the “Online” status every time you’re using the messenger.
Unfortunately, it is not available in Google Play Store, so you’ll have to download it and use it at your own risk.
Note: This WhatsApp modder is available both for iPhone and Android and sustains fairly good general feedback.
Wrap Up
Now that you know how to hide your online status on WhatsApp, your privacy is enhanced.
It’s a shame that is not possible to do it directly in the app’s privacy options, but fortunately, you’re now able to override this flaw with the tricks given in this article.
We hope they’re valuable.
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