WhatsApp has just loaded one of its most popular tricks: power view someone's status anonymously, without that person being notified. The platform has updated the app by introducing this small cultural, which now makes your visualization appear the moment you are no longer in "hidden mode". We explain exactly what will happen now.
The stalk
Maybe you were one of those who used this trick when keeping an eye on the status of a contact. And it is that WhatsApp allowed you to be able view the "Stories" of a person without their knowledge as long as you had read receipt disabled while viewing them. So many used this ruse to be able to spy on other people's states, deactivating reading notifications, looking at the images that certain contacts had uploaded and later reactivating said confirmations in the application options.
This, however, is over forever. the people of WABetaining has published on his Twitter account that the messaging platform has introduced a small change in this procedure making the trick no longer work... as it did until now. As you can see explained in the tweet below, the old cheat will no longer be entirely possible, since the moment you reactivate the read confirmation, you will appear as a spectator of the states of that person you were observing in secret mode.
- WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) January 27, 2019
This will happen even if you don't see those stories again after the notification activation, thus leaving a kind of "pending" update in the system that is activated as soon as you are 100% again. visible and accessible. The only one solution for this? Have read receipts disabled on your account until 24 hours pass How long does an online status last? -You know that just like Instagram Stories, WhatsApp statuses expire after that time and disappear.
It is true that WhatsApp states do not enjoy anywhere near the popularity of the aforementioned Stories from the social network Instagram. Facebook, owner of both, thought that it would be possible to transfer the experience from one to the other, however, few (compared to Stories) dare to use this modality. Still, the cheat was quite popular among status fans, so it's not bad to know that it doesn't work anymore... lest you get caught red-handed. Warned you stay.
False, I did the test with two cell phones, I uploaded a status on one, I put on hidden mode, I looked at the status, then I activated the read confirmation again and on the other phone it did not appear at any time as if I saw it