Don’t like people to know you’ve read their Whatsapp messages? Here’s how to fix it

Its really a pleasure and honor of having one of the most misinterpreted features in the world of tech startups goes to Whatsapp – specifically, the check marks that appear next to any message sent. Many initially guessed that two check marks meant that the recipient has already read the message, but that turned out to be incorrect.

Whatsapp had not so long ago introduced the option to hide the ‘last seen’ notification that informs the other party when that person was last on the messaging platform. The introduction of the blue check marks is strange, given that this brings back the social pressure to reply – what many users consider an intrusion of privacy.

Thankfully, someone has found a workaround to circumvent this new feature. Rahul Banker, head of India’s Google Developers Group, revealed the method on his blog.

I will be using my android phone so and it applies to ios, justjust follow this simple steps below .

Open whatsapp and goto >Settings>Account>Privacy

To keep people from knowing you read their message, tap the Read Receipts switch to turn it off. This means you won’t be able to see whether or not they’ve read yours either, though. 

Thats it. As simple as it is.

WhatsApp is a great messaging app and, although it is secure, by default, it shares more information than many people like with their contacts. I personally leave read receipts and my last online time switched off; I recommend you do too.

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