If you don’t like the idea of someone else reading your Whats App messages as they flood in, through the previews that pop up on your screen, you can simply restrict the amount of information they display. On Whats App for i OS, you can force previews to show the contact’s name only by heading to Settings Show Preview. Further proof of Whats App being a maze of potential social pitfalls is the ability to hide your ‘last seen’ time. Prevent your contacts from finding out when you were last online by navigating to Settings On that note, you can mute group chats whenever they get too lively for your liking. However, bear in mind that by hiding your own read receipts, you’ll also lose the ability to see when your own sent messages have been read. You can sneakily read messages without those blue ticks appearing on your friend’s screen and disabling read receipts by enabling Aeroplane Mode before launching the app and opening the message in question. Just remember to close Whats App before turning Aeroplane Mode off. If you’ve gone through the effort of turning a conversation into a home screen shortcut, you may as well bless it with a custom notification too.
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