The instant messaging app WhatsApp maintains over 500 million active users in India among its many popular users. The application regularly updates its features to improve user satisfaction and serves personal and professional needs. There are occasions when you spot a message yet decide to leave it unaddressed immediately or want to hide your message reading status from the sender. When you need to prevent message read indicators you should disable the blue ticks.
The easiest method for those who are unfamiliar with the platform is to use WhatsApp blue ticks to determine message read status. The feature enables you to read text messages without alerting the sender. The blue tick status will remain disabled so your friends cannot detect when you view their messages. Here’s how to turn it on:
How to Disable Blue Ticks on WhatsApp
Open your WhatsApp application and navigate to Settings through the following steps.
Users must tap on privacy followed by accessing the Read receipts options to disable it which hides blue ticks from their chats. To re-enable read receipts users can use the same procedure.
After disabling blue ticks on WhatsApp you lose the ability to view receipt notifications from other users. The blue tick disabling option does not impact group messages because your group members will still see two blue ticks indicating their message reading.
You can hide your last seen and online status through WhatsApp. This guide shows you how to conceal your last seen activity on WhatsApp.
How to Hide Last Seen on WhatsApp
To begin with, navigate to Settings and then Privacy. To access the ”Last seen and online” option you must tap on it in Step 2. Step 3 presents three options including Everyone, My contacts, My contacts except… or Nobody and Step 4 requires users to select Nobody to prevent their contacts from viewing their online status and last seen.
