Whatsapp trick: have I been blocked?
How to find out
Created: 02/19/2022, 06:20
By: Jan Trieselmann
On Whatsapp it is possible not to receive messages from certain contacts.
Anyone who thinks they have been blocked themselves can check this.
Kassel – Two billion people use WhatsApp worldwide.
That makes him the most successful messenger.
Whatsapp is also free - although a popular Whatsapp feature could soon become a paid feature.
In Germany there are almost 60 million users - that is more than 70 percent of the German population.
If you ask acquaintances, you will hardly find anyone today who has not installed the app on their smartphone or at least had it once.
But that can also cause problems: The more numbers someone has saved on Whatsapp, the faster it can happen to feel disturbed by another contact.
If you don't want to receive any messages from that person, you don't have to delete them right away - because you can block contacts on Whatsapp.
It becomes uncomfortable when you can no longer reach another contact yourself.
If you suspect that a Whatsapp contact has blocked you, you can find out from a number of signs - one of which is almost certain.
But the Whatsapp messenger has not yet offered an official function to recognize this, so users have to help themselves, as reported by hna.de*.
It is similar if you want to bypass the "Forwarded" notice on Whatsapp.
Contacts on Whatsapp: Many signs can indicate blocking
However, it is important to emphasize that most signs do not exclusively mean that a contact has blocked you on Whatsapp.
Sometimes there may be other reasons behind it.
However, certain tests are fairly certain that Whatsapp is being blocked.
On the messenger service Whatsapp it is possible to block other people so that they can no longer contact you.
You can't tell for sure.
But there are several signs that can point to this.
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Anyone who suspects that they are blocked by someone else in the Whatsapp chat cannot see an individual
profile picture
of the contact.
Instead, only a standard Whatsapp image with a white silhouette on a light gray background is shown.
However, this is also possible if someone has not yet set up their own Whatsapp profile picture.
Blocked on Whatsapp: contacts no longer receive messages
In addition, if a contact has blocked you, Whatsapp will not deliver your messages and voicemails to them.
This means that you will only see
one checkmark
instead of two in the bottom right corner of the sent message field.
The message was sent, but not delivered.
But there can also be other reasons behind this: the Whatsapp contact you wrote to may have switched off their mobile phone, for example.
Even with poor reception or an interim problem with the Whatsapp servers, Whatsapp may not deliver messages.
If you haven't written to the contact for a long time, it is also possible that he has changed his number in the meantime.
Blocked by Whatsapp contact: Profile info can provide important information
The " Last
seen " function can offer
another approach .
If you don't see the time for that contact, they may be blocking you.
However, each user can turn off this feature for all of their contacts without blocking anyone.
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However, two criteria offer significantly more certainty as to whether a contact has blocked you on Whatsapp.
The likelihood of this increases if they cannot see their
profile info
.
This is the descriptive text below their profile information and above the media sent when you click on your contact's name in chat.
A Whatsapp status message from the contact is also not displayed to them.
High security for blocking: Contact is not in new Whatsapp group
However, you have the highest security if you create a
Whatsapp group
yourself - preferably only with the contact who you suspect is blocking you.
If this is actually the case, he will not appear in the list of members afterwards.
Here is an overview of the possible signs of Whatsapp blocking:
The contact has a standard Whatsapp picture and no individual profile picture.
Your sent message only shows a tick, so it has not been delivered.
You cannot see when the contact was last online on Whatsapp.
There is no profile info as descriptive text when you click on the contact name in chat.
The affected contact does not appear in a Whatsapp group when you recreate it.
Anyone who does not want to use the Whatsapp messenger on mobile devices can now also access it via Whatsapp web or download it via the Whatsapp desktop app on the PC.
Soon there will also be a big change in deleting Whatsapp messages.
(Jan Trieselmann) *
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