How To Read/See WhatsApp Messages Without Opening Them

With more than 5 billion downloads from the play store, Whatsapp is one of the most leading messaging apps around the Globe. The secret behind this huge success of WhatsApp is its tons of awesome features that make it easy to use for its users, Among all these cool options there are features called Reading Receipts that let you know that your receiver had viewed your messages in the form of blue tick at what time. This is a fantastic feature of WhatsApp but sometimes we want to involve in a particular chat/message where we do not want to inform the sender of our involvement, There are some simple tricks by which you can perform this and give yourself plausible deniability.

Whatsapp shows the sender status of their message by series of checkmarks ( ✅  ) where single ✔  means message had been sent, double-check means messages had been delivered and double checkmark with a blue tick means message had been read by the receiver, For those times where you want to read messages and does not want blue tick at the receiver end you can apply some of the following steps.

Step 1: Read the messages directly from the Notification Bar.

 

This method is so simple to use and useful for reading short messages without converting blue tick to the sender, only you have to read the message in the Notification bar and clear them, do not tap or open the message, this process can also be viewed on your lock screen. If this process is not working or stopped in your phone you can do the following steps to start it :

1. Open the setting of your phone.
2. Open Apps in the setting.
3. Open WhatsApp in it.
4. Click on Notification.
5. And allow all Notification for WhatsApp

After performing these steps correctly you will start getting WhatsApp Notifications.

The disadvantage of this method

• Media and long chat messages can’t be seen through this method.

Step 2: Break the connection. 

This method is useful for reading long messages as you can’t read a long message in Notification, For performing this activity first do not open incoming messages and clear the Notification. From there follow these steps:

1. Turn off wi-fi and mobile data and activate airplane ✈  mode in your device, by which WhatsApp's ability to communicate will be stopped.
2. Then open WhatsApp and tap the messages or chat you want to read and read it. You can also have a screenshot of that particular message/chat depending on your use.
3. Once you are done reading close WhatsApp completely, minimizing it will fail your secret operation.
4. After making sure that you have done all the following steps correctly you can disable airplane mode. 

The sender won’t receive the blue tick mark as you had broken the connection of the app by enabling airplane mode, Do not reopen the chat unless you don’t want the sender to get a blue tick mark. 

The disadvantage of this method.

• You can’t see media messages through it if auto-download features are not enabled.

Step: 3 Turn on the auto-download feature for media messages.

You can see all types of multimedia messages that you had received on your WhatsApp without opening them on WhatsApp, to use these features follow these steps:

1. In Whatsapp open setting from the three dots on the upper right corner.

 

 2. Then open the option of storage and data from there.

3. Then turn on auto, media download through current service provider (wifi/mobile network )

After allowing auto media download you can see all types of new/latest WhatsApp media message without opening them through gallery/file manager.

The disadvantage of this method

You can only see the media, you can’t know the name of a particular sender without opening WhatsApp.

Step 4: Disable these blue tick options from the setting.

If you are from that type of people to whom there’s privacy mean a lot or you had work which required you this advance privacy, In that case, WhatsApp give you ability to completely disable this service of Reading Receipts, Follow these steps to completely Disable the read Receipts features: 

1. Open Whatsapp then open the setting of WhatsApp from the three dots in the top right corner.

2. In setting open Account and then open privacy tab from there. 

3.    3. Then turn  off the read Receipts option from there.

When you turn off read Receipts the option of blue tick at both ends will be blocked which means that no one can know that you had viewed her/his messages, as wells as you also can’t see whether your message had been seen receiver end or no.

Disadvantages of this method:

• Bluetick will always work for groups messages.

• Bluetick option will also work for recorded voice messages send through WhatsApp.