How To Easily Hide <i>Last Seen</i> On WhatsApp From Certain Contacts
How to Easily Hide Last Seen on WhatsApp from Certain Contacts (Pixabay)

YOGYAKARTA - The instant messaging application WhatsApp has prepared a number of new features, one of which is hiding "Last Seen". Last Seen itself is a feature that can see when users are online in the WhatsApp application.

This makes some users feel uncomfortable and choose to disable it. However, disabling "Last Seen" or last seen on WhatsApp makes it impossible for everyone to know when a user was last online.

This condition also makes some users feel a dilemma between activating or disabling the Last Seen feature. However, this issue will soon be resolved because WhatsApp has made an update that allows users to limit who can see the last time you were online.

The new feature of WhatsApp is called My Contact Except, which can be selected to display Last Seen information, profiles, photos, and other user information that certain contacts are allowed to see, and who are not allowed.

If you are interested in activating the feature, the VOI team has prepared steps you can take to limit the contacts who can know when you are viewing WhatsApp or online.

How to Hide Last Seen from Certain Contacts

To activate the Last Seen feature of certain contacts on your WhatsApp, users can update or update your WhatsApp application first on the Google Play Store or the Apps Store.

After that, you can open the WhatsApp application, then select the three-dot icon in the upper right corner or the "More" button of your application.

Next, click the "Settings" menu or WhatsApp settings, then click "Account". After that, select the "Privacy" menu and click the "Last Seen" icon.

After selecting the menu, users will be given several options, namely "Everyone" which means everyone can see when you last used WhatsApp.

Then "Your Contact" which means only people who are in your contacts can see your "Last Seen" status on WhatsApp. Next, is "Nobody" which means no one can see your status.

And finally, WhatsApp's newest feature, "My Contact Except". If you select the last menu, the user can determine who can see your "Last Seen" status, and who cannot see it.

If you want to use this feature, click "My Contact Except" until a green circle appears, then you have used the feature and you can set it.

This is a way to hide when you are viewing WhatsApp or online using the "Last Seen" feature which will be released in late 2021.


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