How to read a WhatsApp message without the sender getting to know

Lets dodge those blue ticks

By
Roger Bambino
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Whatsapp messaging and dark mode

It goes without saying that WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app used in Uganda, and it comes with several features, among these one of the most important is the read receipt feature. This is an optional feature and if you have not yet installed an alternative WhatsApp app (like WhatsApp GB or WhatsApp plus) there are a few things you change that you cannot with the default WhatsApp app. The feature in question is the ability to hide the famous double blue ticks, that informs the sender that the recipient has read their message,

For this, one of the options can be to enter the settings inside WhatsApp and turn off the particular feature. Unfortunately, this turns off the feature for all and doesn’t let you know if the other person has read your texts or not.

So here is a step by step method on how to read a WhatsApp message without the sender knowing

1. When a text message arrives on WhatsApp, first thing to do is to scroll down the notification panel and switch on the airplane mode.

2. Once offline, open the WhatsApp chat and read the message.

3. Once read, close the app from the multi window so it doesn’t stay open in the background and sync when you go online.

4. After closing the app completely, switch off the airplane mode again.

 It is worth adding that when you are in the airplane mode and are reading the WhatsApp message, make sure you close the app completely by swiping it away from the multi window section. If you keep simply press the back button, the app won’t close and will keep running in the background. As a result, as soon as you go online by switching off the airplane mode, the double ticks will turn blue as the app, which is actively running in the background, will sync.