Among the changes in the privacy policy and the evolution that WhatsApp is undergoing in this regard, there are several mechanisms to improve the security and privacy of the user . One of these modifications is the possibility of applying restrictions to certain contacts. Don’t want others to see your profile picture?
Ways to do it
The simplest method is also the most restrictive. The most efficient and quick way for someone not to see our profile picture is … to block that contact on WhatsApp. Blocking it (contact-> right dropdown menu-> More-> Block) will automatically prevent you from seeing our profile picture and status. What happens is that by blocking it we will not be able to continue talking to that person, because communications through WhatsApp will be completely blocked (you will not be able to talk to that person or add them to groups) and perhaps this is not your intention.
Other less radical ways
There are other reversible ways. In just a few simple steps we will see how to hide the profile photo on WhatsApp and if, after a while, you change your mind, you can easily return to the state of before and make your profile photo available for that or other temporarily censored contacts.
How to hide your profile picture from anyone
There can be many reasons why you may not want your friends / contacts to see your profile picture. It doesn’t really matter the reason , you can limit the visibility of your WhatsApp profile photo and instead display a white silhouette on a gray background. How to do it?
- Open WhatsApp
- Go to Settings → Account → Privacy
- Tap the profile picture
- Select: Nobody
Clever. From now on, none of your contacts will be able to see your profile picture.
How to hide your profile picture from a specific person
As we have seen, officially, WhatsApp offers us the possibility to prevent all your contacts from seeing your profile picture (since the default setting is “Everyone” in the list of options) but, with a little trick, you can choose who you would like see it. Follow these simple steps:
- Open WhatsApp
- Go to Settings → Account → Privacy
- Tap the profile picture
- Select: My contacts
- Copy and paste the contacts that you would like to block in the notes application and delete them from your phone book or contact book.
Clever; From now on, none of the contacts you have deleted from the directory will be able to see your profile photos.
Once we have established that only our contacts can see our profile photo, we will only have to delete the specific contact that we do not want to see our photo. It’s as simple as removing it from your contact list. In this way, the conversation with that person will remain open and active but our profile photo will be invisible to that person.
Hiding the image of the WhatsApp profile of a specific contact is only part of the equation to guarantee privacy on our smartphone but there are other options that you could also consider, such as: how to know who is spying on you on WhatsApp and how to avoid it or how to prevent your WhatsApp account is hacked.
