How to become invisible on WhatsApp?

Don’t want to be spotted or disturbed while viewing your messages on WhatsApp? Some tips allow you to let your contacts know or even to hide your presence

WhatsApp can behave like a real cookie. As soon as you open the application on your mobile, you appear as connected and “online” to all your contacts. If you wanted a little privacy and just discreetly watch what was said in your absence in a discussion Whatsapp group, you have missed it!

And it is sometimes difficult to reject a contact who wants to start a live conversation, or not to reply to a friend who has written to you when you do not have the time or the inclination to reply …

proves impossible to hide this famous mention “online”, WhatsApp has some options to make you less “visible” to everyone. From the most radical to the most selective, here are several methods to prevent your correspondents from being tempted to reach you.

This is a fairly radical way of proceeding, but it has the merit of guaranteeing you complete discretion. You just need to activate the airplane mode on your mobile. All network connections (whether 4G or Wi-Fi) are thus cut.

Nothing prevents you from opening WhatsApp and then taking a look at the various conversations. Your correspondents will not know and will therefore not try to restart the conversation. On their mobile, under your name, the words Seen at will appear followed by the day and time of your last connection to the app.

When you’re done, close the app and turn off airplane mode to reestablish communications. Please note, as soon as you open WhatsApp again, you will be visible again with the mention “online” under your name on your correspondent’s screen. The messages that you have read during this disconnection time will be displayed as “read” on his mobile,

Hide the traces of its passage on WhatsApp

In a discussion, under the correspondent’s name, the time at which he was last “seen” is displayed. You can ask the app not to fill in this information as well as prevent it from betraying you by indicating that you have read a message.

Open WhatsApp. If the app shows a conversation in progress, go back to see the list of all discussions. On Android, tap the three superimposed dots at the top right of the screen and choose Settings . On iOS, press the Settings button at the bottom right of the screen. Then select the Account menu .

Now tap on Privacy then on the Seen to menu and choose No one . This way, the time when you opened the app, and which therefore indicates that you were online, will no longer appear in your contacts.

Go back to the privacy settings and tap the Read receipt switch to turn off the option. So, even if you read a message, it will appear unread to your correspondents. Be careful though: this trick does not work in group chats.

Ask your correspondents not to be disturbed on WhatsApp

If you don’t want to be disturbed, you can simply warn your correspondents by passing the message through your status and your news.

Go to WhatsApp settings, then tap your name which appears at the top of the screen. Press the News menu .

Choose from the list of proposed news the one that suits you ( Busy , In a meeting , Urgent calls only , etc.) or touch the menu Currently configured as . You can write the personalized message that will appear for your status. Press Save to confirm.

Return to the general WhatsApp interface then, on Android, press the Status menu at the top of the screen or, on iOS, the Status button at the bottom left of the screen.

Tap the pencil icon to the right of My Status . Write the message you want to convey, then validate by pressing the small arrow appearing at the bottom right of the message.