HOW TO READ A WHATSAPP MESSAGE WITHOUT THE SENDER KNOWING
Unless you've turned off
the feature, WhatsApp delivers read reports that tell a contact you have read
the message. If you want to delay your reply without appearing rude, here's how
to read your WhatsApp messages in secret.
Smartphones are brilliant
at keeping us connected and contactable at all times, but that can also have
its down sides. Sometimes it is not convenient to reply to a message
immediately, but with WhatsApp displaying two blue ticks to inform its users
when their message has been read it can be difficult to delay our replies
without seeming rude.
Actually it's worse than
that, because WhatsApp can also show a user at exactly what time you read their
message and when you were last online. So if an hour has passed since you read
the message and you were online 10 minutes ago, you'll have a job explaining
why that message was not important enough to get your attention.
While the system can be
handy for ensuring your messages are getting across, being a busy person
does not make you a terrible person. It's perfectly okay to allow yourself a
little time, but there are some tweaks you can make to the app and some tricks
you can use to do so while keeping everyone happy - it's quite possible to read
a WhatsApp message in secret, without the sender even knowing you've seen it.
DO:
Disable WhatsApp Read Receipts
The best way to stop
people knowing when you've read their message is to disable read receipts. The
catch here is that it works both ways: if you don't let others know when you've
read their messages, you won't be able to see when they've read yours. Fair's
fair.
(If you don't like being
fair we have also listed some more sneaky ways of reading WhatsApp messages in
secret below.)
Launch WhatsApp and tap
the three dots at the top right of the screen
Enter the Settings menu
Choose Account
Choose Privacy
Slide the toggle next to
Read receipts to disable it
If you do decide to turn
off read receipts you should be sure to also follow the next step and disable
Last Seen, or you'll give the game away.
DO:
Disable WhatsApp Last Seen
It's no good turning off
read receipts if your message sender can see that you've been on WhatsApp and
haven't bothered to read their message. In fact, it's worse.
As with read receipts,
this works both ways: you can't see when they were last online if you don't let
them see when you were.
Launch WhatsApp and tap the three dots at the top right of the
screen
Enter the Settings menu
Choose Account
Choose Privacy
Tap Last Seen
Select Nobody
DO:
Enable Pop-up Notifications on the Lock Screen
You can now view floating
notifications of WhatsApp messages on the Lock Screen, and unless they are
ridiculously long you should be able to see the majority of the message in this
preview window. Here's where you'll find that option:
Launch WhatsApp and tap the three dots at the top right of the
screen
Enter the Settings menu
Choose Notifications
Choose Popup notification
Select Only when screen "off"
DO:
Enable High-Priority Notifications for WhatsApp messages
As with pop-up
notifications on the lock screen, high-priority notifications enable you to
read a WhatsApp message without being seen by flashing them up at the top of
the screen in whatever app you're currently using - just be careful not to
accidentally tap on it. You'll find this option in the same menu as before:
Launch WhatsApp and tap the three dots at the top right of the
screen
Enter the Settings menu
Choose Notifications
Enable the toggle next to 'Use high-priority
notifications'
DO:
Read WhatsApp messages in the Notification Bar
If you're using an Android
phone you'll be notified of new WhatsApp messages in the notification bar at
the top of the screen. Rather than tapping these to open them in the app, pull
down to read the message and access an option to reply within the notification.
Your message will not be marked as read.
DO:
Read WhatsApp messages in the Android widget
All standard Android
phones support widgets, accessible by tapping and holding on the home screen
and selecting Widgets. If WhatsApp Messenger is installed on your phone then
you will find a WhatsApp screen widget in this depository.
Tap and hold
the WhatsApp widget to drag it to your home screen. Any incoming WhatsApp
messages will then be visible within this widget without you needing to launch
the app and open them.
DO
NOT: Read WhatsApp messages in Aeroplane mode
Before WhatsApp added all
these sneaky ways of getting round read receipts, an often quoted way to read a
WhatsApp message without being seen was to put your phone into Aeroplane mode.
Trouble is, your phone is then in Aeroplane mode and not all that useful to
you, and invariably when you exit that mode up will pop those two blue ticks..
DO
NOT: Mark WhatsApp messages as unread
You might have found an
option in WhatsApp that enables you to mark messages as unread, but you should
know that this is for your benefit only - it's a way of flagging messages you
intend to act on later. It's accessible in the Chats tab when you tap and hold
a conversation to select it, then tap the three dots at the top right and
choose 'Mark as unread'.
DO
NOT: Delete the WhatsApp message
In 2018 WhatsApp added the
ability to delete not only received WhatsApp messages, but sent
ones too. If your recipient had not yet read the message then they never would,
though they would see a notification that a message had been removed, and they
might ask why.
You should know that when
you delete messages you have received it works differently: you are removing
them only from your view of the conversation, and the sender can still see
them. Of course there's also no fix for the fact they know they sent you the
message in the first place, so you can't get away with reading it and saying
you never received it.
Source: techadvisor.
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