WhatsApp is one of the communication tools most used by users. Especially in Spain, where it is estimated that it currently has some 38 million users.
The strong penetration of the application means that, for some time now, the accounts of Internet users who use it have been among the main targets of cybercriminal groups.
In addition, as it is a platform specially designed for conversations between two people, and which receives a huge amount of private information, you must try to put up all possible barriers to prevent someone who is too curious from accessing its interior. Next we collect a good handful of tricks with which you can convert your WhatsApp in a fortress.
Always in two steps
WhatsApp has a system of two-step verification, which allows the user to protect their personal account against impersonation attempts by third parties . To enable this option, you have to go to ‘Settings’ or ‘Settings’, depending on whether the ‘smartphone’ is iOS or Android, access ‘Account’ and activate the so-called ‘Two-step verification’. The platform will ask you for a six-digit code that you will have to use when you download the ‘app’ on another device. As it happens when you buy a new terminal.
In addition, you can associate an email address with it. This is used for WhatsApp to send a link by email to the user so that they can disable two-step verification in case they forget the 6-digit access code. It should be remembered that this code is completely personal.
archive
It is possible that, on some occasion, you have been worried that someone who should not pick up your phone and check your WhatsApp messages. If you want to avoid it, there is a very simple way to achieve it, and without any need to delete the conversation. This happens, in part, because archive chats you don’t want anyone to see . The option, which is available on both iOS and Android, can be applied to a single contact or to all contacts on the list.
In this case, the user just has to press and hold the chat in question, click on the ‘Archive’ option and it will automatically disappear from their list of conversations.
If you want to consult it at any other time, you just have to click on the ‘Archived’ section, which is included at the beginning of the list of conversations. Even if messages are received or sent through those chats, the conversation is not unarchived. Only the user can do it. No screen notifications are received either.
This functionality, in addition to allowing the Internet user to hide the conversations they want, can be interesting to avoid inconvenience when you are on vacation or simply want to stop constantly checking the messages that come to the chat on duty.
no profile picture
The platform allows select which users can see the profile picture of a contact. A functionality that can be especially interesting for those who have a predefined image with their children. To implement it, it is necessary to go to ‘Settings’ or ‘Settings’, depending on the operating system, ‘Account’ and ‘Privacy’. Under the option ‘Last. time’, you can see ‘Profile photo’.
Once you click on it, you are given the option to limit who can see the image. It is possible to choose between ‘Everyone’, ‘My contacts’ and ‘No one’.
Neither connection time
If what the user wants is to prevent others from seeing if they read the messages they send them, what they should do is go to ‘Settings’ or ‘Settings’, ‘Account’ and ‘Privacy’. There you will find the section ‘Read confirmations’. If you deactivate it, other users will no longer see the double blue ‘tick’ that shows that you have opened a conversation and have been able to read the messages that have been sent to you. However, if you disable the read confirmation, you will not be able to consult that of others either.
Don’t be bothered by the groups
WhatsApp groups can be useful when it comes to maintaining communication with friends, family and coworkers. However, also they can become a huge nuisance when they do not stop receiving messages and, especially, when they add us to groups in which we are not interested in being.
Although the creation of groups is one of the main functionalities of the application, WhatsApp has always considered itself as a tool specially designed for conversations between two. For this reason, the ‘app’ has a tool that allows users to limit the groups to which they can be added.
If, for example, you want to configure WhatsApp so that only your contacts can add you to a group, you must enter ‘Settings’ or ‘Settings’, ‘Account’, ‘Privacy’, ‘Groups’ and select the ‘my contacts’ option. Likewise, the user has the option to choose ‘my contacts, except…’, which will allow him to manually select several numbers from the contact list that, from that moment on, will not be able to add him to groups.