One of the most debated problems over the past year in the application WhatsApp was that of the privacy And, in a year in which scandals were uncovered such as espionage of the United States government, added to The security flaws of this tool, made many people think twice about keeping this tool installed on their mobile, or even displaying some type of content.For this reason, the privacy options that WhatsApp ended up including over time were also welcome, highlighting among them the possibility of hide the profile photo to strangers Here we will tell you step by step how to do it.
For many months, users of WhatsApp on all platforms: Android , iOS and Windows Phone, have a privacy section on the menu Settings From here it is possible to control what contents of the user's profile can be shown or not to strangersAnd it is that not everyone wants to make their profile image public, as was the case years ago. In this way they can avoid harassment and messages from users who only test profiles when they get a phone number.
Just access this section from Settings, within the Account Info , where the section Privacy is listed first. Here there are several options to customize what you want to display, among whichstands out Profile picture
Clicking on this option opens a small window with three options: All, My contacts and nobody.
If the option My contacts is selected, the profile picture will only be shown to those people that are contacts in the user's agenda Thus, only if your contact is listed on the user's mobile, the selected image can be seen when consulting the profile.
In this way, people who have with our telephone number to contact us by WhatsApp They will not be able to see our profile image until we decide to save their number in the phonebookSomething that allows you to leave the image visible to other contacts, but not for those who contact us for the first time And so on until you decide to store your number in the mobile phone book, at which time the image will appear to be able to consult it in the profile.
The most radical option is to select the Nobody option. In this way the profile image becomes deactivated, showing a light background for all users. Something that will ensure that nobody can know the person through this data.
With this simple mechanism to prevent strangers from seeing your profile photo, many of the mechanisms of are overridden harassment that were used some time ago. And, thanks to some services and web pages, when entering the telephone number of a person, it was possible to see theirimageSomething that, in turn, motivated many users to start a conversation that was often forced and without the approval of the other user.
