▶ How to choose who can see your profile picture and status on WhatsApp

One of the things that most worry many WhatsApp users is their privacy. After all, the use of the profile photo and the possibility of posting statuses leaves us very exposed to anyone who has our phone number. Luckily, the application has tools that allow us to control a little better who has access to our content and who doesn't. All we need is to know how to choose who can see your profile picture and status on WhatsApp to deny access to who we don't want.

As explained to us in the WhatsApp Help Center, we can choose who sees the profile photo and status, but also the last connection time or section Info.

The different options we have when choosing who sees our content are the following:

• Everyone: Anyone with your phone number can access your phone number
• My contacts: the information you are configuring will be available only to those people you have saved in your address book
• My contacts, except…: You can block your profile picture or your status so that specific people don't see them
• Nobody: The information you are configuring will remain hidden from all users

In addition, you should also know that those people you have blocked will not have access to any of the news you do in these issues . That is, they will be able to see the profile photo you had on before you blocked them, but in the event that you modify it, they would no longer have access to it. And the same would happen with the states, you will not be able to see those published after the blockade.

It is also interesting to know that it is not necessary to have the same settings for all aspects of your account That is, it is possible to that you are interested that anyone can have access to your profile photo, but instead you prefer that no one outside your contacts can see your states. You will be able to do it without major problems, since we are talking about two different configurations.

Where are the privacy options in WhatsApp

Now that you know what aspects you can modify, it's time to know where are the privacy options in WhatsApp to put them at your taste.

If you have an Android mobile, the first thing you should do is open the application and press the icon with three vertical dots that will appear at the top of the screen. In the menu that will appear below you will have to enter Settings>Account>Privacy Next, you will be able to see how the different aspects of which you can modify the privacy appear on the screen. If you click, for example, on Profile photo, you can choose the privacy settings you want for that aspect. Then you can do the same with the states, as well as with any other aspect that you want to change some aspect of to improve your security.

If you have an iPhone, the process is very similar. All you have to do is open the application and enter Settings>Account>Privacy Once there you will see all the aspects of which you can configure privacy so that you can make the changes you deem necessary. The privacy options available are the same for Android as they are for iPhone, so once you've managed to get to them you won't find any difference when it comes to configuring them to your liking.

It is important that you know that there is no option to hide when we are online or when we are writing a message. So you should be careful with any third-party app that promises you this, as it might put your security to the test.