How To Hide Online Status On WhatsApp [6 Simple Steps]

The common question every individual has is “how to hide online status on WhatsApp?”

Well, you can easily hide the last seen. But, there are 2 methods to hide online status on WhatsApp.

In this article, I will show you to hide online status as well as hide WhatsApp status from certain contacts.

Let’s get started!

What is WhatsApp Status?

WhatsApp status, in simple terms, is sharing your day-to-day activities with your family and friends. You can share your feelings and emotions to your friends. 

You can also share your attitude towards life and it may reflect your personality.

You can also share love status for your loved ones.

This status remains visible for 24 hours. Also, you can share videos with your family and friends.

How to hide online status on WhatsApp?

There are six simple steps to hide online status from contacts.

You can either include contacts to display your WhatsApp Status or exclude contacts to hide from them.

WhatsApp offers these two options to hide online status in WhatsApp.

Visible to everyone

If you want to display your status to everybody you can keep it to My Contacts.

My Contacts Except for These Contacts 

You can include some contacts from which you want to hide online status.

Simply, open WhatsApp on your phone and click on these 3 dots.

Then, click on settings.

Click on Account in the settings option.

The next is Tap on Privacy to change the setting.

Once you tap on privacy, select the option of My Contacts Except to include contacts to hide from them.

This way you can hide a status from contacts you include.

Only share with these contacts

In this section, I will show you how to hide online status from excluded contacts.

The procedure is the same as before. The only thing you need to change is select Only share with option.

These are two ways to hide online status on WhatsApp.

You can share status with your family and friends and exclude or include contacts from which you have to hide the status.

You can find various statuses like motivation, love, life, etc to share with your friends. There is a motivational status that will help you go ahead in life. You can set goals and motivation can help you achieve it.