How to appear offline on Whatsapp and yet read messages.
WhatsApp trick to show you offline
If you do not wish to appear online on WhatsApp yet want to read the received messages, here is the trick that will disable blue ticks and make you appear offline in this popular chatting app. Also, just by adjusting settings you can now temporarily not receive or send messages without having to uninstall the app. The process works fine if you want to use WhatsApp just to reply to messages and not see photos and videos.
If you do not wish to appear online on WhatsApp yet want to read the received messages, here is the trick that will disable blue ticks and make you appear offline in this popular chatting app. The process works fine if you want to use WhatsApp just to reply to messages and not see photos and videos.
WhatsApp introduced the read receipts or the Blue ticks option in its app to display checkmarks next to each message you send. The feature allows people to see precisely when the message is read. Although it helps you to know whether the message you sent to someone has been read by him or her, it becomes a hindrance when you receive a message from someone but do not want to reply immediately or want to reply back without showing you online.
Apart from the ‘read receipts’ option, the ‘last seen’ notification on WhatsApp is also one of the features that give you no privacy. Now here is a way you can hide from your contacts even while you are online on WhatsApp.
Trick to appear offline
To reply without appearing online you should reply directly from the screen.
For iPhone users, slide the new message to the left, tap on the view option and reply
For Android users, tap the message on the home screen. The ‘Mark as read’ & ‘reply’ options will appear, tap on reply to send the message.
The quick reply feature in WhatsApp not only allows you to reply from the notification panel without even opening the app but also hides your online status from other contacts. So only you and your preferred contact can chat now without anyone knowing that you are online.
For the flight mode to appear offline when you send the message, switch the phone to airplane mode. Then open WhatsApp and go to the contact where you want to send the message and open it. Type the message, hit the send button while WhatsApp is running in the background.
Turn off the Airplane mode. The message will be sent to the receiver without you appearing online.
If you want to peacefully watch a movie or read an online article on your mobile without any disturbance of incomin ytsApp messages, you can shut the mobile data and WiFi exclusively for WhatsApp. Here is how you go about it.
For Android:
Go to the Settings option on your phone
Then go to the Manage Apps or Installed apps
Open WhatsApp app
Select Data Usage. Now disable mobile data or data usage, disable WiFi, and background data as well
Clear WhatsApp from recent apps
For iPhone
Go to Settings
Scroll down to open WhatsApp
Open it and deselect mobile data and background app refresh
Clear WhatsApp from recent apps
iPhone users cannot disable WiFi for apps from their phones so they can consider switching it off
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