In the ever-expanding digital world, privacy is not a luxury, but a necessity. With privacy in place, users can save themselves from hackers who potentially exploit vulnerabilities. Furthermore, our browsing history, social media interactions and location data can be misused for targeted advertising, identity theft, or even physical harm.
WhatsApp offers various privacy features and whether or not you should tweak your WhatsApp privacy settings depends on your personal comfort level and online risk tolerance.However, users must consider reviewing and adjusting them as they can then have an increased control over your personal information and reduced spam and harassment. Here’s how you can change your privacy settings on WhatsApp.
How to change privacy settings on Android, iPhones and web
WhatsApp offers various privacy features and whether or not you should tweak your WhatsApp privacy settings depends on your personal comfort level and online risk tolerance.However, users must consider reviewing and adjusting them as they can then have an increased control over your personal information and reduced spam and harassment. Here’s how you can change your privacy settings on WhatsApp.
How to change privacy settings on Android, iPhones and web
- By default, WhatsApp sets your privacy settings to allow:
- Any user to see your profile photo, read receipts and when you’re online.
- Your contacts to see your status updates, about and when you were last seen.
- Any users to add you to groups.
- Users whom they have saved as a contact or who they have messaged before can see their last seen and online.
To Change privacy settings
- Tap more options
- Go to Settings and then Privacy
Here users can change:
- Who can see your Last Seen and Online
- Who can see your Profile Photo.
- Who can see your About information.
- Who can see your Status updates.
- Whether Read Receipts get sent.
- Who can add you to Groups.
- Which calls get silenced.
- Who can call you.
Users can also take privacy checkup that allows them to choose the right level of protection for them. There is a step-by-step guidance to help strengthen the security of a WhatsApp account and customise privacy settings all in one place. In privacy checkup, users can:
- Choose who can contact you.
- Control your personal info.
- Add more privacy to your chats.
- Add more protection to your account.
- How to start your privacy checkup
- Navigate to your privacy settings:
- Android: Tap more options > Settings > Privacy.
- iPhone: Tap Settings > Privacy.
- Tap Start checkup on the banner at the top of the screen.
- Tap each option to adjust your privacy setting for that section.
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