Despite some crowding to Signal and Telegram due to WhatsApp’s controversial privacy update, the fact remains that the Facebook-owned messaging app still dominates the market.
WhatsApp has more than 2 billion users worldwide, making it by far the most popular messaging app. Therefore, it’s good to look around some features of this app that secures your privacy without ruining the fun of chitchat. Here are we telling you the two hidden features that one should definitely try.
Hide your profile picture
There have been times when you don’t want everyone to see your profile picture, especially when you are a part of annoying family groups. The good news is that there is a way to hide your profile picture on WhatsApp from those who don’t know you personally.
To do this, open WhatsApp, go to Settings, Click on Account, click on Privacy. Thereafter, tap on the Profile photo, You will get three options: ‘Everyone’, ‘My Contacts’, ‘Nobody’. Select one of the options, to whom you want to make your DP visible.
In case you want your profile photo to be visible to people whose numbers are saved in your contacts, then simply select ‘My Contacts’. If you want no one to see your profile picture, choose ‘No One‘.
Hide the blue ticks
The blue ticks you see next to messages are useful as it alerts a user when messages are sent through and read. Those blue ticks can prove to be troublesome when you don’t reply to a person instantly.
Here is the solution: turn off your read receipts by going to Settings -> Account -> Privacy and then untick the “Read Receipts” box. Keep in mind, the feature won’t disable the read receipts (blue tick) for the group chat.
