Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – There are several tricks that can make your WhatsApp appear offline to other users, even though you are online.
This feature is not only applied to WhatsApp Messenger on Android and iPhone devices, but also to the WhatsApp Business and WhatsApp Web features.
Turning off online status on WhatsApp is very useful for making your privacy more comfortable. Especially for users who don’t want to appear online when opening the application or replying to messages.
Apart from that, by implementing this method, it gives users more control so they can choose their own list of other WA users who are allowed to see their online status.
Summarizing from various sources, below is a way to make WA appear offline even though it is online which can be applied on Android phones and iPhones.
WhatsApp privacy settings
The first way to make WhatsApp offline even though it is online is through the privacy settings. This is WhatsApp’s newest feature to hide the ‘online’ status that appears in chat rooms.
Here’s how:
- Open the WhatsApp application from the device
- Click the three dot icon at the top right
- Select Settings (Settings)
- Click Account (Account)
- Select Privacy (Privacy)
- Click the Last Seen and Online menu
- On the Who Can See My Last Seen menu, check Nobody (no one can see your last seen status).
- On the Who Can See When I’m Online menu, check Same as Last Seen. This means that your account’s online status is Nobody, that is, it cannot be seen by anyone.
- At this stage, your online status on WhatsApp has been successfully hidden and offline.
Turn off the blue tick
Disabling the blue tick could also be the next option if your cellphone doesn’t support the feature of removing online status.
The two blue ticks on WhatsApp messages are a sign that the message you sent to the recipient has been read.
If you want to delay replying to a message, you can turn off the two blue ticks so they turn into two gray ticks.
That way, WA messages that have been read will not change color to blue but will remain gray. Here’s how to turn off the blue tick on WA so it looks offline:
- Open WhatsApp from your cellphone or laptop
- Click the three dot icon at the top right
- Select Settings (Settings)
- Click Account (Account)
- Select Privacy (Privacy)
- Select the Read Receipts option while sliding the green button to deactivate it.
Reply to WA chat via notification
Another alternative so that your WhatsApp account still appears offline but can still reply to messages is via the notification panel.
Replying to WA messages in this way will not show online status, even typing information will not appear.
Those are several ways to make WA appear offline even though it is online on Android phones and iPhones that you can try straight away.
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