WhatsApp: All users can now chat incognito under the radar
Created: 2022-10-21Updated: 2022-10-21 13:52
By: Stella Henrich
Now all users of the WhatsApp messenger service can actually make themselves invisible.
It only takes a few clicks and others will no longer see your own online status.
Mountain View ‒ If you don't want anyone to see your WhatsApp online status, simply call up the "Settings" in Messenger.
There the user clicks on "Privacy" in the Account area.
"Online" now also appears in the selection behind "Last online".
Click here and the user gets to the timestamp for "Last seen".
In addition to "All", "My contacts", "My contacts except ..." you can now also check the
option "No one"
.
However, the selection also means that the user himself - with this option selected above - can only see that other users are online if he has released his own status.
The "stealth cloak" feature was announced on Twitter for all users back in August.
So now she is here.
However, it is important that the latest version of WhatsApp is installed.
This is the only way to keep users under the visibility radar.
WhatsApp reacts too late to the displeasure of its users
By default, WhatsApp shows whether a user is active in the app or when they were last.
If you don't want that, you have to
change the setting
now .
The fact that other messenger services have been offering this option for a long time to hide one's online status also causes additional displeasure and ongoing criticism among WhatsApp users.
Certainly one of the reasons why the innovation is finally coming to all more than two billion WhatsApp users.
Because now your own family can see that you are online, but your boss and colleagues cannot.
Data protectionists are always waiting for the possibility that entire profiles of WhatsApp users can be created in the background, revealing how long and when a user plays on their cell phone.
An Eldorado for stalkers.
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Recently, WhatsApp has also been testing a trick for photo messages.
The recipient can look at pictures and videos as long as they want, but cannot open them again after they have been closed.
The sender can select the option before sending the file.