How To Hide WhatsApp Online Status? Hide WhatsApp “Last Seen”

 These new features will help WhatsApp users to hide their online status, with the help of which you can control who can see your online status.

More new features have been brought to the WhatsApp app, the instant messaging platform that has the largest number of users worldwide, including in India. Recently, WhatsApp has introduced many features like WhatsApp community, inchat poll, increase in group limit, in addition to these, WhatsApp has also added a new feature called online presence. These new features will help WhatsApp users to hide their online status, with the help of which you can control who can see your online status.

As soon as any WhatsApp contact is opened it will appear as ‘online’ if they are online. Due to this, there was no privacy while using WhatsApp. But, the online status presence features brought by WhatsApp is now quite convenient and will help WhatsApp users to hide their online status from selected contacts. This allows you to decide who can see your online status and through this you can keep all your contacts from knowing your online status and being active on the WhatsApp application.

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To use the online presence feature on your Android phone:

Step:1 Open the WhatsApp app on your Android phone

Step:2 Tap on the ‘More’ option with the three dots at the top.

Step:3 Now tap on Settings option and then tap on Privacy.

Step: 4 Then tap on Last Seen and Online option.

Step:5 Then tap on Exclude My Contacts option.

Step:6 Now select all the contacts from whom you want to hide your online status.

Step: 7 Then tap Done.

Here’s how to use the online presence feature on your iPhone:

Step 1: Open the WhatsApp app on your iPhone

Step 2: Tap on the Settings tab.

Step 3: Tap on Privacy option.

Step 4: Now, tap on My Contacts.

Step 5: Select all the contacts you want to hide your online status from.

Step 6: Then tap Done.

This allows you to decide who can see your online status and through this you can keep all your contacts from knowing your online status and being active on the WhatsApp application.