Since its launch, WhatsApp has been improving its instant messaging service, incorporating indicators and signals to know if our messages have been received and read. Improvements that, in some cases, are not to everyone's liking. And it is that we are not always interested in the person who sends us a message knowing that we have read it. Fortunately, there are tricks to read a WhatsApp without opening it.
There are many reasons to do this. For example, because it's a contact we don't feel like talking to, because we don't have a good answer to what he's asking us, or because we're simply too busy to engage in a long conversation via WhatsApp.
Reading the message and not replying is not polite. It is equivalent to saying that we do not care or are not interested in what the other person is telling us. But WhatsApp takes care of automatically notifying the person who sends the message with the famous double check the color blue. This makes it difficult to read and ignore the message discreetly.
Three tricks that work
But there are some tricks that will help us in this type of situation: using the notification bar, using airplane mode and disabling the read confirmation system. We explain all these methods below:
Read the message through the notification bar
A simple but effective trick. And it works for both iPhone and Android phones. It is very useful when we receive notification of one or two messages at most. If we get more, previews offered by the notification bar they will not be able to show all the texts.
The idea is as simple as this: when we receive a notification that we have received a WhatsApp message, we click on it and scroll down to see all its content. This is how it should be done on an Android phone. In iOS, just swipe to display the messages received in WhatsApp.
Yes, it is important do not click directly on the message itself. If we do this, the application will open and whoever sent it to us will know that we have read it.
put the phone in airplane mode
This is another classic trick that many users also use to view instagram posts without opening them, discreetly. Is about use airplane mode. It can also be done simply disabling phone connections , either 3G or 4G or WiFi.
How does this trick work? Very simple: when our smartphone stops having a connection, WhatsApp does not detect us within the application, nor does it send any "read" notification. In other words: we will be able to open the messages and read them without the person who sent them seeing the message icon. double check blue.
Es a good solution, but with limitations. The main drawback of this trick is that, by removing airplane mode, our mobile will reconnect to the Internet. Then, WhatsApp will immediately detect that we have opened and read the message, immediately informing whoever sent it. It can help us, yes, to buy some time and think about the best way to respond to those messages.
Disable read receipt
This third trick is actually an option offered by the WhatsApp configuration menu itself. The application gives us the possibility to permanently disable all read receipts. In other words: make the famous disappear forever double check blue. We explain what steps you have to follow to do this:
- To begin, click on the icon of the three points that appears at the top right of the screen.
- In the menu that is displayed, we choose the option "Settings".
- Next, we choose the option "Account", after which we access the Privacy menu.
- Of the numerous parameters that can be adjusted in this menu, the one that interests us is that of "Read Confirmation". To eliminate the double blue check that notifies other users that their messages have been opened, the box found in this option must be left empty, unchecked.
For the trick to take effect, Some other precautions should be taken, such as deactivating the option to show the last time we connected in the privacy options. But even by doing this, we will not be able to prevent our contacts from knowing that we are connected to WhatsApp or writing. If so, some of you may wonder: "Why doesn't he want to read my message?"
It must be said that there are mobile apps that they can offer you this and other similar services, although sometimes this can bring us more problems than solutions. It is better to use one of the three tricks that we have presented to you and not risk it with an unknown app that, in the best of cases, could work with errors and, at worst, put our device at risk.