THIS IS A TOTAL GAME CHANGER SURELY

[isitanoaktree]

Whatsapp has now provided an update whereby users can hide their 'online' status. This is honestly brilliant and a long time coming.

I have just breathed an audible sigh of relief knowing that being seen online won't cause issues for me in the future now.

What does this mean though for cheating spouses and partners who were caught out, in part, because they were seen online at odd hours or only ever online when they were locked in the bathroom? Interesting one...

Plays right into the hands of philanderers doesn't it...

It's an optional setting, so if you and your DD like the reassurance you can leave it on.

Thank the lord!!! This update has been a long a time coming. I can't believe it's taken so long.

On a previous thread about this I was corrected when I said it had been around for years

Like you I was wrong and had confused last seen with online but unlike you I read the posts of more knowledgeable people and realized my mistake 😮🙃

You need to update the app to see this.

Why do you feel good about not using WhatsApp? That's a bit odd, there are no doubt scores of other ways to message people that I haven't heard of never mind use, are we meant to feel something about that?

I really don't care who knows if/when I'm online or not

I don't care about other peoples status either. Not caring about it seems to remove a lot of hand wringing and angst about being on bloody whatsapp

Maybe I'm odd in that nobody in my life ever questions/argues/gets shirty about unanswered messages or not replying straightaway

Plays right into the hands of philanderers doesn't it...

WhatsApp is a messaging app, nothing more, nothing less. It will offer features that it thinks the individual user will find appealing and that's it. It's not an app to enable cheaters, it's not an app to catch cheaters. It's an app for sending messages and most people like to control their visibility to others.

Mobile phones enable cheating.

So many dramatic messages on this thread.

I, like most people surely fall somewhere in the middle of having people barge into their houses/not giving a flying f* about it.

A usual scenario for me: replying to person A when person B sends me a message. Think ‘ugh’ because I don’t want to or don’t have time to reply to person B, but they are going to know that I was online at the time. No biggie, but I do feel slightly impolite and would rather someone didn’t know I had seen their message and then not replied.

Knew this was coming, didn’t know if was yet available. Have now updated.

Same. I looked up how to do it some while back - probably over a year - because I didn't want certain people to see me.
I now can't see when they're online, or last seen. I don't get any blue ticks except for in groups. I can see when someone is typing so I assume they can see when I'm typing.

Thanks for the thread! I didn’t know this update was available have updated app and am delighted.

I get you OP.

This is such an odd thread. I keep reading the title as, “PHILANDERING HUSBANDS HATE THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK…”

OMG, some of these posts 😂.

So many dumb idiots who unable to comprehend simple facts but who are so convinced they are right 😲🤑

Use the report button on your original post and ask MN to take voting off.

“Yes indeed! I feel relieved in all honesty! No more WhatsApp induced anxiety!”

This stood out for me. You could have worked on the anxiety and not needed this update (which I agree - really is new 🤣).
I give not one fuck if someone sees I have been online, or even has two blue ticks - and I haven’t yet replied. They - and WhatsApp - aren’t the boss of me, and I will reply in my own good time. I have never had someone complain about a delay in replying. Possibly because I’m known to have boundaries. I’ve occasionally legitimately had a “sorry to chase” follow up message - which causes me no anxiety at all.

Lol. I love this thread knew when it happened that it would be full of people saying they could already do it and been 'doing this for years'...🤣🤣🤣

What's to share? I just give zero fucks simple as, nothing to bottle and share. And I'm not married to a scummy lowlife who uses setting on WA to hide their dodginess. We live an authentic life, wastes zero emotional energy.

please try it sometime.

@oviraptor21 but people CAN still see that you are online even with all of that disabled. It comes up at the top of the screen. The new updates removes that. It's a common misconception with WhatsApp. Just pop if into google and it'll explain the update x

That's the other thing to mention, I'm clueless about where to find the settings, I haven't the foggiest what the blue ticks are, I get a message from someone and reply when I can, if it came in last week who cares, sorry I've got a living to earn and a life to live.

Liberating.

i did find out that you can add a few emoticons to peoples comments, but was a bit meh, do I give a shit if people give me a thumbs up or not. They're probably as clueless as me with any luck

Great update. Thanks OP!

This thread 😂Anyway, I wasn't aware of the update so thanks OP.

YABU

@isitanoaktree ok OP clearly I and many others had mixed up ‘last seen’ with online status and thought this had been a feature for years. Maybe it’s because I’ve never wondered about or checked someone’s last seen status that I’d conflated it with online status. There’s really no need to call people idiots who are IT illiterate. I can assure you I’m neither of these things, it was just a little misunderstanding over two WhatsApp features which are similar to each other.

Tech savy people probably care very little for apps such as WhatsApp. Far more exciting things to comprehend. It's the fungus gnat of the fly world.

I may be in a minority but I fail to see how this is a “game changer” or cause for an “audible sigh of relief”

Why is it such a big deal that people can see when you’re online or not?