WhatsApp is one of the most preferred messaging services, with billions of active users. The app is feature-rich with voice and video calling, privacy, security, group chat, and the ability to share photos and videos, among other facilities.
However, one common question about the app is whether it is possible to know who viewed your WhatsApp profile. Can you know if someone secretly viewed your WhatsApp profile or Status and checked if you are online? In this article, we’ll answer these questions and more.
Control Your Privacy on WhatsApp
As with any social network, there are some people with whom you don’t want to communicate. In fact, it can be a big deal for privacy-concerned users. But how much control does WhatsApp give you over who can see your information?
WhatsApp lets you control who can see when you were last online, who can see your profile photo, About information, and Status, as well as control over sending and receiving Read receipts upon request and your Live location.
Can You See Who Viewed My WhatsApp Profile?
If you’re wondering who is viewing your WhatsApp profile, unfortunately, you won’t be able to see that information. The Meta-owned platform does not maintain logs of people who viewed your profile. Profile visits aren’t counted or displayed.
There are apps (banned from the App Store and Play Store that you have to sideload onto your phone, which should tell you something) that claim to be able to provide this information. But in our findings, they are not accurate.
In all honesty, there are no apps to check who viewed your profile because, unlike Tinder or LinkedIn, this is not what WhatsApp is meant for.
How to Protect Your Information
How you program your WhatsApp settings determines who can see what information about your profile. You can authorize your viewing audience for everyone, contacts only, or no one.
Changing these settings is pretty straightforward.
For Android:
- Open WhatsApp and tap the vertical three-dot menu.
- Select Settings.
- Tap Privacy and make changes as you see fit.
For iPhone:
- Launch WhatsApp and tap the gear icon (Settings).
- Tap Privacy and make changes as you see fit.
Can You See Who Is Stalking You on WhatsApp?
No. People who have your WhatsApp contact number can only see your profile but only if your profile settings are set to Everyone. You can change it to My contacts to only allow people with your phone number to view your profile.
WhatsApp is a straightforward app. If someone wants to talk to you, they can call or send you a text if they have you in their contacts. But WhatsApp isn’t a social media platform like Facebook.
Generally, you put your status information on your profile and then forget about it. Other than watching your WhatsApp Status, there isn’t any information for a stalker to collect, and there’s no way for you to see that they’re paying attention.
If you are really worried about a stalker, then you can always try to figure out who it would be. Stalkers are usually known to you, or you can just not use your Status as a real-time update on what you are doing.
Blocking on WhatsApp
Although WhatsApp doesn’t notify you who is viewing your information, they do give you a lot of control over who is able to see it. If you’re concerned about someone viewing your WhatsApp profile, you can set your privacy settings so no one can see your information or contacts only.
WhatsApp can automatically upload all of your contacts from your phone. If you’d like to check these for privacy, you can tap on the new chat icon in the lower right-hand corner of the screen on Android or the new chat icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen on iPhone and scroll through the list.
If you’d like to block someone on WhatsApp, here’s how to do it:
For Android:
- Select the contact you’d like to block.
- Tap the vertical three dots and tap More.
- Hit Block.
For iPhone:
- Select the contact you want to block.
- Tap on their profile.
- Scroll down and Hit Block (contact name).
From here, you can report or block the contact. Once this is done, they’ll no longer be able to view your WhatsApp profile.
Can You See When Someone Has Viewed Your WhatsApp Story?
Absolutely, If you and the other person have turned on their receipts, WhatsApp works on the “it’s only fair” mantra. If they can see who’s viewed your story, you can see theirs.
On the flip side, if you want to stay private, turn off the Read receipts:
For Android:
- Open WhatsApp and tap the three vertical dots.
- Select Settings from the drop-down menu.
- Tap Privacy.
- Turn off the Read receipts switch.
For iPhone:
- Launch WhatsApp and go to the Settings section.
- Select Privacy.
- Tap the Read receipts switch to turn it off.
After turning on Read receipts, both you and the other person who has turned on the Read receipts will be able to see each other’s WhatsApp story. This can be handy if you are worried about a stalker because if the other person has their read receipts on, you can see how often they are looking at your story.
How to See Who Viewed Your Status
If you’d like to see who viewed your Status, you can. Unlike your profile, the Status updates on WhatsApp do alert you to who may be stalking or simply checking out your account.
To check who viewed your Status, simply click the eye icon at the bottom, and it will show your views.
Keep in mind that your Status only lasts for 24 hours. After that, you won’t be able to see who viewed the content you posted.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Will someone know if I check their Last Seen on WhatsApp?
A. No, currently, no one can check if you’ve looked at their Last Seen on WhatsApp, and there are now no apps that let you track this.
Q. Can someone track me on WhatsApp?
A. No. Even the Live location feature of WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, meaning no one can see your location except for the person with whom you shared it.
Q. How to know if someone hasn’t saved my number on WhatsApp?
A. To check if someone has saved your number, you can use the WhatsApp broadcast message feature. If you send a broadcast message to the person whom you wanted to check here and their name shows up below the DELIVERED TO section, then they haven’t saved your number.
