This is how you can prevent your WhatsApp friends from knowing that you have read their messages when you open the application. While it’s handy to let people know that you’ve read a WhatsApp message, there are times when you don’t want to reply right away or make someone feel like you’re ignoring them.
It’s a simple change whether you want to turn off WhatsApp read receipts for privacy or convenience. Unfortunately, you cannot make changes on a per-person basis. This is something you can do in iMessage and is very useful.
Prevent your friends from knowing that you have read their WhatsApp messages.
How to Turn Off WhatsApp Read Receipts
Likewise, you can turn off read receipts in WhatsApp on iPhone or Android. It takes less than 30 seconds and you can reverse the setting at any time.
Turn off WhatsApp read receipts.
- on your iPhone or Android.
- bottom right.
That’s all there is to change. The effect is immediate. If you decide you want people to know that you’ve read their WhatsApp messages, you can turn it back on.
You can turn them back on at any time if you wish.
For an added level of privacy, you can turn off the ability to show you when you were last online. If you don’t want anyone to know when you last looked at the app, in the Privacy menu, tap on Last Seen and turn it to Nobody.
Turn off last seen for added privacy.
With these WhatsApp options enabled, the messaging service gains a small layer of privacy and security in addition to the already encrypted messaging. With end-to-end encryption, only people involved in your conversation can see them. Even WhatsApp can’t see what you send.
WhatsApp is a messaging app that works on multiple phone types and operating systems, so you can make calls and video calls without relying on text messaging. You can also use the web from your computer or Application for Windows or Mac.
