KOMPAS.com – Photo profile usually shown when using WhatsApp. However, some people feel uncomfortable if installing photo profile.
Various reasons why people choose hide profile picture them.
Did you know that WhatsApp provides a feature that allows someone to set their profile photo so that only certain people can see it.
Thus, unwanted people will not be able to see your profile picture.
Here’s how to make your WhatsApp profile photo invisible to certain people:
How to hide WhatsApp profile photo from certain people
For those of you who don’t know how to hide profile photos from certain people, here’s how to do it:
- Open the WhatsApp application
- Click the three dots icon on the top right
- Select “Settings” then click “Account”
- The next step select “Privacy” then click “Photos Profile”
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At this stage, WhatsApp users will have the choice of who can see their profile photos. The options are:
- Everyone
- My contact
- Contact me except…
- There isn’t any
If you want to hide contacts from certain people then select “My contacts except…”.
Next tick the name of someone you don’t want that person to see your profile picture.
Meanwhile, if you select “Everyone” then everyone including those whose contacts are not saved can see your profile photo.
Meanwhile, if you select “contacts” then only saved contacts are allowed to see profile photos.
If you select “None” then no one will be able to see your profile picture.
Other alternative ways
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Another way to prevent someone from seeing your profile photo is by not saving the person’s number.
However, to do this, the setting you need to do is select the “Contacts” option in the choice of who can see your profile.
That way, when you delete or don’t save someone’s contact, that person won’t be able to see your profile picture.
Another way that is quite extreme is blocking.
By blocking someone, not only will their profile picture not be seen, but all messages from that person will never be sent.
(Source: Kompas.com Writer Nur Rohmi Aida | Editor Rendika Ferri Kurniawan)
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