This is something everyone wants to do at some point. take care of the privacy of another person in a certain situation. Although Meta (formerly Facebook) is not exactly the company that is most concerned with hiding our most personal data, among users we still have an option to view a whatsapp status without being seen by the contact who posted it.
From the account settings, we have several options to limit what other users (contacts or strangers) can see from our profile. The main method to avoid being seen while viewing statuses is disable message confirmation, also sacrificing that other people realize that you saw their individual messages.
In this article we are going to consider other options apart from that, so that you know how to see WhatsApp status without being seen before and after seeing it for the first time. It will be useful to apply it to your account or learn just out of curiosity, in case you think that one of your contacts does the same.
Configure account privacy to see a WhatsApp status without being seen
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, this would be the main method to see a WhatsApp status without being seen: The problem with doing so is that we will not be able to leave other contacts in blue or make sure that they have read our own messages.
The trick is to quickly turn on, view the status, and turn off the read receipt. In this way we avoid the possible problems that the lack of read confirmation may cause. If you want to apply this trick, do the following:
- Open the WhatsApp application.
- Touch the three vertical dots in the upper right and enter "Settings".
- Tap on the “Account” option.
- Tap on the “Privacy” option.
- Disable "read receipt".
- Find the state you want to see.
- Repeat the procedure but this time reactivate the read receipt.
You have to do this every time you want to see a status without being seen on WhatsApp. Afterwards, you can use one of the two applications that I will discuss below to download the status in question, outside of the WhatsApp application.
How to see the status of WhatsApp with Wamr after seeing it for the first time
This application has several functions related to WhatsApp, one of them is the possibility of download the states that our contacts have published, without the need to open them as we normally do. Once downloaded, we just have to play it locally on our device. The good thing about this app is that it lets you choose which statuses to download from each user, instead of downloading everything at once.
Wamr is free and popular with millions of users. It can also be used for recover deleted WhatsApp messages. If you want to download it to see states, you have to do the following:
- Download and install the app from the Play Store.
- Along with opening it, it will ask you for several access permissions to your personal information, they are essential for its operation. After fulfilling our mission, you can deactivate each permission one by one while you are not using the application, for more security.
- Go down through the list of states that is presented in the application and select the one you want to download.
- When it finishes downloading, it will be located in the Android “Downloads” folder.
This can work because after we see the states only once, WhatsApp downloads them in a folder on our system for when we want to play the content (in the official application). These third-party apps get those files without going through the WhatsApp code.
View WhatsApp status from file explorer, after seeing it for the first time
As I mentioned above, WhatsApp downloads the states in a folder of our device, therefore, any application that serves as a file explorer will allow us to find the WhatsApp folder and see its content, which ranges from states to multimedia files that are downloaded in chats or groups.
The application that we will use in this case is called Files, from Google. There are also many other options like: File Explorer, Solid Explorer, ES File Manager, all the variants of File Explorer you can find. In any case, it is necessary to look at the reviews and number of downloads that the chosen application has, because it will have access to the files of our device. We must do everything possible to make sure that it is not an application with hidden malware.
Files is a fairly reliable browser, but the following steps can be done with any other application:
- Launch Files or another application to explore files.
- Access the Settings (in the case of Files) by touching the Settings button in the menu on the left.
- Download and activate the ability to view hidden files.
- Exit the Settings and touch the “Explore” option, after scrolling down, you can access the internal memory of the device.
- Find the WhatsApp folder by going to Android > Media > com.whatsapp > WhatsApp > Media.
- Inside WhatsApp, tap on the “Media” folder.
- Hidden folders are the ones that have a “.” first. in her name. Enter the “.Statuses” one.
- Here you have the list of all the statuses that have been sent in the last 24 hours to the application, you can copy, delete or play them from there.
The importance of WhatsApp states
Whatsapp statuses have become a good opportunity for companies that want to promote their products to newly added potential customers. This messaging application is used by more than a billion people, so it is likely that everyone in your area at least knows about it.
The states do not require updates because they only last about 24 hours, to present offers or products of the day it is ideal. And they are not only useful for the business or professional field, because an ordinary person sees through them the possibility of reaching all their contacts or a select list of them, to communicate something that, separately (forwarding messages) would have taken longer.