WhatsApp is an application that has changed the way we relate to each other. Now we can talk daily with people who are far away and share images and much more. But we must recognize that as much as we like it, it has made us lose a lot of privacy. Although fortunately it is nothing definitive. The app has some options that allow us to safeguard some of the data that we may not want other people to see. And if you don’t want everyone who has your number saved in their phonebook to know what your last connection time was on WhatsApp, you just have to learn to hide it.
HIDE THE LAST CONNECTION TIME OF WHATSAPP
By default, every time one of your contacts enters the conversation they have with you, they can see the last time you connected to WhatsApp. But this is something that can be very annoying, especially if you don’t want the other person to have too much control over you. If you want nobody to be able to see your last connection time on WhatsApp , the steps to follow are these:
- Enter the WhatsApp app
- In the chats tab, tap on the icon with three vertical dots
- Tap on Settings
- Sign in Account
- Tap on Last Time
- Select Nobody
In this way, none of the people you have as contacts in WhatsApp will be able to see your last connection time to the application. You also have the option that unknown people cannot see it but those you have saved in your contact list can , or even that it is only hidden for some specific people. You are the owner of your privacy, at least to some extent.
HIDE THAT YOU ARE ONLINE
It is of little use that a person cannot know the exact time at which you have connected to WhatsApp if they can enter your chat and see that you are online. Until now there was no way to hide this, so the protection of our privacy was only relative. However, Mark Zuckerberg has just announced new privacy options in the social network that will allow us to choose who can see if we are online or not . Presumably, the steps to do so will be very similar to hiding the last connection time.
However, you have to have a little patience, since this functionality has not yet reached users . It has only been announced by those responsible for the tool.
Therefore, if you are going to modify who can see if you are online or not and you see that this option does not appear, don’t worry, it is not your problem. You just have to wait for a new update to arrive , which will probably take place in the next few weeks.
OTHER PRIVACY NEWS FOR WHATSAPP
In addition to the possibility of hiding whether we are online or not, other new features have also been announced that will allow us to have more decision-making power when it comes to protecting our privacy on WhatsApp. One of them is to leave a group silently . Thus, your contacts will not receive that message of “Fulanito has left the group” with which it is usually quite bad. Just one day you won’t be there anymore. And other users probably won’t even notice if it’s a very large group.
The possibility of blocking the possibility of taking a screenshot of those images or videos that we have sent so that they can be seen only once is also added. Therefore, if we have sent some very private content to someone with whom we are having a conversation, we will make sure that it remains between us, without anyone else being able to access it.