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WhatsApp is a popular way to stay in touch with friends, family, and coworkers. However, sometimes your chats could be of a sensitive nature, things you don’t want to share with others. It’s too common for those around you to unconsciously glance at your phone when you have WhatsApp open, and you may not want them to see who you’ve been chatting with.
If you’re wondering if there’s a way that you can hide your messages on WhatsApp, look no further. This article will discuss hiding your messages and notifications on an iPhone and an Android device.
Whatever your reasons are for hiding WhatsApp messages, it can be done. The most popular method is by archiving them. This will put them in a special archive folder that isn’t immediately visible when you launch the app.
Another option is to add another level of security to the app if you don’t want to jailbreak your iPhone to run third-party apps to hide your messages. It’s also possible to hide your WhatsApp notifications. We’ll cover all of these methods below.
The most straightforward way to hide a WhatsApp message is by using the archive feature. By archiving a chat, it won’t be immediately visible when you have the app open. However, you’ll still have access to these archived chats. To learn how to archive messages, do the following:
This chat will no longer be visible when you have the app open. You can easily view archived discussions by swiping your finger downwards to reveal an Archived Chats link just under the search window. Tap on it and see your hidden chats.
Currently, you can only hide WhatsApp messages by archiving them. There are third-party apps that will assist you in hiding messages, but you’d first have to jailbreak your iPhone.
Jailbreaking voids your warranty and isn’t recommended unless you know exactly how to do it.
The only other option available is to add another level of security to your phone by requiring a Touch or Face ID to unlock WhatsApp. This will prevent others from gaining access to your chats. To set up the ID, follow these steps:
You’ll now have an extra layer of security to hide your messages and will require your Face ID or Touch ID to open the app.
You may want to hide your WhatsApp notifications.
If you have multiple active chats simultaneously, these notifications can be distracting. You can easily disable this feature by changing your iPhone’s settings. Here’s how it’s done:
Following these steps, you’ll no longer see a notification whenever you receive a new WhatsApp message.
Each WhatsApp user has their reasons for hiding messages on their Android device. Hiding messages can be done using WhatsApp’s archiving feature or a third-party app. Message notifications are also easily hidden by changing your device’s settings.
Fortunately, making these changes is a straightforward process.
There could come a time when you’ll want to hide certain messages on WhatsApp. Thankfully, this is something that can be accomplished. The quickest method is to archive them. With a quick swipe and a tap, you can hide any message. To archive a WhatsApp message on your Android device, follow these steps:
This message will now be moved to the Archive folder. You won’t be able to see it when you open the app. To view it, scroll down to the bottom of the screen and press on “Archived Chats.”
The only way to hide WhatsApp messages without archiving or resorting to third-party apps is to limit access to the app. This can be accomplished by making adjustments to your privacy settings.
Adding another layer of security will make it more difficult for others to access your WhatsApp messages. Here’s how to do it:
If you’d like to hide your messages without archiving them using a third-party app, here’s how to do it:
Choose a password pattern to implement the lock code.This message will now be hidden and locked. To view your hidden chats with GBWhatsApp, you’ll need to verify the password pattern.
With multiple simultaneous WhatsApp chats, you could be bombarded with notifications each time you receive a new message. These notifications can not only be distracting but could also be an annoyance. Fortunately, you can turn them off by changing your WhatsApp settings. To turn them off, do the following:
By changing your settings, you’ll no longer receive a notification when you have a new chat message.
You can easily hide your WhatsApp messages and notifications on either an iPhone or Android device by utilizing the archive feature.
This will move the selected chats into a special folder that isn’t directly shown in the app. Notifications are easily hidden by making a change to the app’s settings. Hiding messages without archiving them isn’t easily done, but there are third-party apps that can assist with this.
Have you wanted to hide messages on WhatsApp? Did you use the methods outlined in this article? Let us know in the comments section below.
Yasmin Ahmed
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 7, 2020 18:17 IST
By Yasmin Ahmed: People often panic at the thought of relatives or friends reading their messages. In the age of WhatsApp and incessant incoming messages, it is always a sane option to hide message preview on the home screen.
It is convenient for iPhone users as the settings can be managed from the WhatsApp app itself. Android users can also tweak notifications by going to their phone settings or trying out the following methods. After disabling the notifications, the content of WhatsApp messages will not be revealed on the home screen.
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Enabling the fingerprint lock on WhatsApp
-- Open WhatsApp
-- Top three dots or Menu button
-- Go to Settings
-- Select Account
-- Go to Privacy
-- Select Fingerprint lock
-- Turn the toggle on for Unlock with Fingerprint
-- Select Immediately once the fingerprint lock is enabled. You may be directed to set up a fingerprint lock for your phone first.
-- Turn the Toggle off for Show content in Notifications.
Other methods for customising Notifications include turning off high-priority notifications. To turn off high-priority notifications, users should:
-- Open WhatsApp
-- Go to Settings
-- Select Account
-- Select Notifications
-- Turn the Toggle off for high-priority notifications
Users must note that they may still receive notifications even after turning the toggle off for high priority notifications.
To be safer, they can change notifications by going to phone settings.
Android users can go to Phone Settings to further customise notifications:
-- Go to Settings
-- Select Notifications > Manage Notifications
-- Select WhatsApp app
-- Depending on the requirement, users can either completely turn their notifications off or selectively turn off top preview and display notification details on the unlocked screen.
-- Users can also select if they want to receive notifications for sending media, call notifications, critical app alerts, etc.
-- Alternately, users can go to message notifications and turn the toggle off for pop-up or sound notifications.
iPhone users can tweak the notifications by followin the given steps:
-- Open WhatsApp
-- Go to Settings located in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
-- Go to Notifications
-- Disable the Show Preview option.
Edited By:
Yasmin Ahmed
Published On:
Dec 7, 2020
October 23, 2019 Technologies
Protect the messenger with a PIN code, remove information about the last time you were online, and hide notifications from prying eyes.
Two-factor authentication greatly increases the security of your account. It will protect you if scammers somehow get access to the SIM card. nine0003
Open WhatsApp and tap → Settings → Account → Two-Step Verification → Enable. Enter and remember the code you created, then enter your email address - you will need it if you need to reset your PIN. Click Done.
Now, every time you log into your WhatsApp account, in addition to the SMS code, you will also need to enter your PIN.
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Disable pop-up messages
When your smartphone is locked, it still shows pop-up notifications. This is very convenient, but not safe: if you conduct confidential correspondence, anyone can spy on the contents of sent messages and the addressee's name on an unattended gadget. And it doesn't require a fingerprint or password.
Therefore, paranoid notifications should be turned off. There are two ways to do this: in WhatsApp itself and in the smartphone settings. In the messenger, open "Settings" → "Notifications". Turn off "Priority Notifications" in the "Messages" and "Groups" sections. nine0003
In the smartphone settings, the same is done as follows: open the system "Settings" → "Applications and notifications" → WhatsApp → "Notifications". Uncheck the "Show notifications" option.
If you don't want to turn off notifications completely, at least turn them off on the lock screen. To do this, tap "Settings" → "Lock screen" → "Advanced" → "Lock screen notifications".
Here you can hide their content so as not to show the text of your messages to strangers, or simply disable them. nine0003
WhatsApp has a huge number of spammers, scammers and just weird and unpleasant people. Luckily, if you don't want to receive messages from someone, you can simply blacklist them.
Open a chat with an unwanted contact and tap "Menu" → "More" → "Block". Or select a conversation with him and press "Menu" → "View contact" → "Block".
You can view users in the black list and, if necessary, remove them from there by pressing "Menu" → "Settings" → "Account" → "Privacy" → "Blocked". nine0003
All WhatsApp users can see the last time you went online. But you can disable this feature so that overly annoying interlocutors do not ask questions why you do not respond to their messages.
Go to "Menu" → "Settings" → "Account" → "Privacy". Click the item "Was (-s)".
Change it from Everyone to Nobody. This way no one can see when you were last online. But keep in mind that in this case, you will not be able to see which of your friends when you went online. nine0003
Details is the text that appears next to your name in your contact list. For newly registered users, this field contains “Hey there! I am using whatsapp. You can specify ready-made statuses there, for example, “At work”, “Busy” or write any quotes.
And if the message in your Details field is not for everyone, tap Menu → Settings → Account → Privacy → Details and select either My Contacts or Nobody. nine0003
Statuses allow you to share photos, videos, text, and GIFs that disappear after 24 hours. By default, they are shown to all your contacts. If you like to share gifs with cats with your friends, and they come to your boss, you run the risk of being in an awkward situation.
Therefore, go to "Menu" → "Settings" → "Account" → "Privacy" → "Status".
Select the "Contacts except" option and specify the people you don't want to annoy with your pictures. Or click "Share With" and your statuses will only be shown to the people you choose. nine0003
Perhaps you want only people you know to see your profile picture. To do this, tap "Menu" → "Settings" → "Account" → "Privacy" → "Profile photo" and select the option "My Contacts".
When you receive and view a message from someone, the sender has a read receipt checkmark next to their reply in the chat. This is usually convenient, but can sometimes lead to awkward situations. For example, you forgot to write to a friend in time, and he was offended. nine0003
To avoid this, tap Settings → Account → Privacy and turn off Read Receipts. Please note, however, that in this case you will no longer see the notification checkmarks. And in group chats, this feature does not work.
There is a little trick for those who do not like the previous paragraph.
If you don’t want to turn off read receipts, but still want to look at the received letter and not tell anyone about it, switch your smartphone to flight mode. Then open WhatsApp and read the message. Then close it, turn off airplane mode, and the sender won't get a read receipt. nine0003
If you want to hide but not delete a WhatsApp conversation, you can archive it. Press and hold the desired chat until you highlight it. Then, in the top menu, tap the "Archive" button.
Of course, any person who even knows how to use WhatsApp will still find a hidden chat if you give him time to sit on your smartphone. But still, thanks to archiving, confidential dialogues are not so conspicuous.
To view the archive of chats, scroll to the very bottom of the list of conversations and click the inscription "Archived". There you can also remove conversations that you added by mistake.
WhatsApp makes it easy for you to share your location with your interlocutor.
This is much faster than typing an address. By default, WhatsApp prompts you to choose how long to show your location to a friend: 15 minutes, an hour, or 8 hours.
But it would be embarrassing to find out that you showed someone your location in real time for a long time because you mistakenly sent geodata to the wrong person. nine0003
To avoid this, go to Settings → Account → Privacy → Location and make sure you don't share your movements with anyone else.
When you reply to someone's messages in public chats, everyone in the conversation can see it. But you can also send private responses. To do this, highlight the message in the general chat and select the "Reply in person" option from the menu.
Did you appoint someone as an administrator in a group you created, and he abuses his authority? Revoke his rights. To do this, press and hold a group in the chat list, then tap Menu→Group Details.
Select the name of the desired person and click "Revoke Admin".
By default, the WhatsApp client on Android saves all received media files to your smartphone's gallery. That is, if someone sent you a confidential photo, you may very well accidentally show it to your friends when you show off pictures from your vacation to them. nine0003
Go to Settings → Chats and turn off Media Visibility. Now uploaded files will not be saved in the gallery. At the same time, save mobile traffic.
In WhatsApp for iPhone, you can secure the app with biometric authentication. Thanks to this, no one will be able to read the correspondence and send messages on your behalf, even if you leave your smartphone unattended.
Open WhatsApp and tap Settings → Account → Privacy → Screen lock. Turn on Touch ID for fingerprint recognition or Face ID for face recognition. Then choose how much time of inactivity to block WhatsApp after.
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On Android, this feature is currently only available in the beta version of the app.
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Sent someone a message and immediately realized that you shouldn't have done it? Whatsapp allows you to fix this error. To do this, press and hold the message until you highlight it, and then select the "Delete" option from the menu. nine0003
True, unlike Telegram, WhatsApp does not delete the message without a trace. Instead, the recipient will see "This message has been deleted." What you have sent will not be deleted after about an hour.
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WhatsApp can back up your conversations to Google Drive on Android or iCloud on iOS. This will come in handy if you want to recover your messages after a system reset or transfer them to another device.
But in the cloud, messages are stored in unencrypted form, which, by the way, WhatsApp warns about in the settings of this function. So if someone gets access to your vault, then the correspondence will be in the wrong hands. If you've secured Google Drive and iCloud with two-factor authentication, there's not much to worry about. But it’s still better for paranoid people to disable message backup altogether. nine0003
Tap "Settings" → "Chats" → "Backup Chats" → "Backup" and set the switch to "Never". Now WhatsApp will store copies of chats only in the smartphone's memory.
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In the modern world, users are increasingly using instant messengers to communicate with relatives, friends, and colleagues. In messengers, we receive different types of messages, but it happens that you get into some chats that distract you with a lot of messages and you want to make sure that notifications about them do not come.
Or you are simply fed up with emails and want to turn off information about them. Today we will analyze how to remove WhatsApp notifications on iPhone, how to adjust the sound. nine0003
Disable message alerts.
Message information display settings.
Select the message sound.
Remove WhatsApp notifications for one contact.
In today's example, let's talk specifically about the WhatsApp messenger and configure notifications in it.
You can make various WhatsApp settings: change the melody, display or remove notifications altogether. If you want information about letters not to be displayed at all, then:
In this case, you will not receive information about incoming messages in this messenger at all.
You will be able to see the incoming email only when you go to the application itself.
If you wanted to remove banners for privacy reasons, then you can use another method and hide only the text of the letter, leaving alerts, but they will only display information about the sender. nine0003
In the same menu item you can enable or disable the "Sound". To do this, move the slider to the desired position. You can always choose for yourself the optimal settings of this messenger on iPhone. nine0003
If you change your mind about turning off notifications, deciding to set it to display correctly, then you can also adjust the sound settings.
