To improve the privacy and security of our users, we're making it harder for people you don't know and haven't chatted with from seeing your last seen and online presence on WhatsApp. The latest change behind the scenes is said to be a privacy and security feature to prevent people you don't know and haven't communicated with from seeing your 'Last Seen' status and online presence in the app.Īccording to a response from WhatsApp support, people and businesses a user knows or has previously messaged are not affected by the change. Users can disable their 'Last Seen' status so that other contacts can't see when they were last online, but the setting's options are currently limited to 'Everyone,' 'My Contacts,' and 'Nobody.' You get the idea.WhatsApp has made a privacy change to prevent people on the messaging platform from viewing the 'Last Seen' status of users whom they have never chatted with, according to the latest report from independent feature specialist WABetaInfo.Īs regular WhatsApp users will know, the 'Last Seen' status of a contact sits atop the conversation thread, informing you when that contact last opened the app and was active on the platform. Don’t want a romantic interest to know you’re on WhatsApp all the time? There you go. Don’t want a coworker or boss to know you’re chatting at work? This setting can prevent that. Kind of nice for some added privacy, right?ĭon’t want your ex to know when you’re using WhatsApp? This is the setting for you. Now those specific contacts you chose will no longer be able to see when you’re using WhatsApp, or when you last used WhatsApp.

Select the people/contacts you want to hide from seeing your Last Seen status.

Open the WhatsApp app if you haven’t done so already, then tap on the Settings button which looks like a gear at the bottom right corner.

How to Hide Last Seen Status from Specific Contacts on WhatsApp

Now you can be much more selective in who you don’t want seeing your status. Previously, hide Last Seen and hide online status but the setting was broadly oriented, so that you either could turn the Last Seen status off for everyone, your contacts, or for nobody.

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