WhatsApp tricks so they don’t know if you are using the app

With the rise of teleworking in Spain we are more connected than ever, but privacy has sometimes been moved to this new online life connected to your mobile or computer. Even when we sometimes use WhatsApp we feel they are watching us and that some, through some methods, can see how we use the file app. However, there are a number of WhatsApp tricks that help avoid this.

Next, a series of WhatsApp tricks that can help Spanish users in their daily lives, managing a series of adjustments and modifying some behaviors, which will allow them to use the application in a more private way.

The recommendations go beyond privacy settings and allow you to prevent them from controlling how you use WhatsApp, keep you anonymous, and not depend on your friends and family to know about you in the application on the other side of the screen.

You don’t know who you’re talking to

This WhatsApp trick will accomplish something that is certainly difficult today: preventing anyone from knowing who you’re talking to. There are several tricks, in fact, that can help you with this. For example, one is to activate two-step verification, an option that will protect us so that no one outside the application, including WhatsApp, can read our conversation.

To activate this option, we will have to go to “Settings” or “Settings”, go to “Account” or “Privacy” (depending on the operating system in use) and look for the “Two-step verification” option.

We can too cats archivar to keep them in a hidden space in case a person looks at the phone screen. Doing so is very simple; By holding down on a chat on Android or swiping right on a chat on iOS, we can archive it. The chat will be moved to a private list that is invisible at first sight. If we don’t mute the chat, as soon as they send us a message it will go back to the main chat list, so the ideal is to mute it so that it does not appear in the list.

We can also always block WhatsApp so that when someone wants to access the application they need our fingerprint or the owner’s face via Face ID, depending on whether you have Android or iPhone.

In the WhatsApp settings we will have to go to “Privacy” and then to “Screen lock”. Therefore, every time we open WhatsApp, we will be asked for biometric recognition, so that only the owner of the phone can access the application. In case it is not possible for you, many applications are available capable of blocking installed applications.

However, on both iOS and Android you can reply to WhatsApp from notifications. In the settings of your mobile you can disable notifications or make them less visible to prevent someone who knows this trick from accessing them. Something you should keep in mind.

For last we can hide the time of the last connection. By default, WhatsApp will use the famous double blue confirmation symbol to confirm that our messages are being read. To adjust these parameters, we will have to go to “Configuration” or “Settings” depending on the operating system, go to “Account” and then to “Privacy”.

Are you connected and when?

Do we want to know when someone is online? It is very easy to do it from WhatsApp Web. This is because this trick is not natively in the WhatsApp mobile application. We will need to download a WA Web Plus extension for WhatsApp. These are the steps to follow on a computer with Chrome:

• Log in to WhatsApp Web and log in with your account.
• After, click the extension icon installed (which will normally appear to the right of the browser’s search bar, along with other extensions).
• When you do that, you’ll see how the extension’s interface opens, as you can see in the photo below. From the “Enhancements” tab and from the “Customize” section activate the check mark “Highlight Online Contacts” and “Notify Online Contacts”.

By activating these options, you will see a pop-up notification when one of your contacts is online, and through a green symbol we can see who is connected.

Where is a contact

In this case, we need some cooperation from the other person to find out where he is. We will have to ask for contact at share your location, a function to share in real time the exact position on the map where said contact is located.

• Open WhatsApp and access the conversation of the person you want to share the location with.
• Click on the clip symbol that appears to the right of the chat and press “Position“.
• Then there will be accept permissions that WhatsApp requests and choose between current location or real-time location.

The person will have to grant the permissions required by WhatsApp and accept the current location or actual location. Depending on the type of information we want, we will have to request both static and real time.

Find out who writes without looking

If what scares you is having to pick up your phone and unlock it to know who is writing to expose you to someone interested in seeing your WhatsApp screen, we have the solution: notifications. We will have to customize them in such a way that our mobile makes different sounds specific to the contact we want.

For Android, this is the process:

• Open WhatsApp and access the conversation of the person in question.
• Click on the contact name and once on the profile click on “Customize Notifications”.
• Activate “Notif. customized“.
• Go to the “Notification tone” section, from which you can choose

In the case of iPhone:

• Open WhatsApp and access the conversation of the person whose notifications you want to customize.
• While chatting with that person, click their name, then scroll down until you see the “Customize the tone“.
• Then choose the sound you want your phone to make when you receive a message from that contact and click “Save”.

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