How To Hide Your Online Status on WhatsApp

WhatsApp is one of the most popular and widely used messaging apps in the world. It allows you to communicate with your friends, family, and colleagues in an easy and convenient way.

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However, sometimes you may want to have some privacy and avoid being disturbed by constant messages and calls. You may also want to prevent others from knowing when you are online or when you last used the app.

Fortunately, WhatsApp gives you some options to control your online visibility and hide your activity from others. In this blog post, we will show you how to go invisible on WhatsApp without deleting your account or uninstalling the app.

There are two main ways to hide your online status on WhatsApp: one is to change your privacy settings, and the other is to disable your internet connection or notifications for the app. Let's see how to do both.

Change your privacy settings

The first step to go invisible on WhatsApp is to change your privacy settings. This will allow you to hide your last seen, profile photo, about, and status from everyone or specific contacts. To do this, follow these steps:

Open WhatsApp and tap on the three dots icon at the top right corner
Tap on Settings and then on Account.
Tap on Privacy and then on Last seen.
Choose who can see your last seen: Everyone, My contacts, My contacts except..., or Only share with...
If you want to hide your last seen from everyone, select Nobody. This will make you appear offline to all other users. They will not be able to see when you were last active on the app.
If you want to hide your last seen from specific contacts, select My contacts except... or Only share with... and then choose the contacts from your list.
You can also hide your profile photo, about, and status by tapping on them and choosing who can see them.

Note that if you hide your last seen from others, you will not be able to see their last seen either. Also, hiding your last seen does not prevent others from seeing when you are online or typing a message.

Disable your internet connection or notifications

The second way to go invisible on WhatsApp is to disable your internet connection or notifications for the app. This will prevent WhatsApp from sending or receiving any messages or calls until you reconnect or enable them again. To do this, follow these steps:

- To disable your internet connection, turn on airplane mode on your phone.

This will disconnect you from any Wi-Fi or mobile data network. Alternatively, you can go to your phone settings and disable Wi-Fi and mobile data separately.

- To disable notifications for WhatsApp, go to your phone settings and tap on Apps or Applications.

Find WhatsApp and tap on it. Tap on Notifications and toggle off Allow notifications. This will stop WhatsApp from showing any alerts or pop-ups on your screen for new messages or calls.

- You can also change your notification tone and ringtone for WhatsApp to silent or none.

This will make WhatsApp calls silent and unnoticeable. To do this, open WhatsApp settings and tap on Notifications. Scroll down and tap on Notification tone or Ringtone. Choose silent or none from the list of sounds.

Note that disabling your internet connection or notifications will not hide your online status or last seen from others. They will still be able to see when you were online or when you last used the app. However, they will not be able to contact you or know if you have read their messages until you reconnect or enable them again.

Wrapping up

As you can see, there are some ways to go invisible on WhatsApp without deleting your account or uninstalling the app. You can change your privacy settings to hide your last seen, profile photo, about, and status from others.

You can also disable your internet connection or notifications for WhatsApp to avoid being disturbed by messages or calls.

However, keep in mind that there is no direct option to go invisible on WhatsApp completely.

If you want to disconnect yourself from the online world entirely, the only thing you can do is uninstall WhatsApp for some time. But then again, it may create a hassle for those who have limited time or rely on chat backups.

We hope this blog post was helpful for you. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below.