When we want to hide information for a person or have more security than whom to have added, WhatsApp offers a number of options to protect our security and privacy of contacts that we have added. But there is always a question to be sure that that person that we have added or blocked still has access to our personal information, there are certain ways to confirm that the person we have blocked cannot see our information or profile picture , here we solve the doubt .
What happens when we block someone on WhatsApp?
The blocking tool appears to us when an unknown number writes us, we can continue chatting or block it directly, but what happens when we press the option to block a number, because in a simplified way this number is registered in our WhatsApp account at a black list of contacts to whom we restrict them from having any type of contact with our phone number, depriving us of all the information on our WhatsApp profile .
In a certain way, blocking is the most effective way to cut any type of contact with a contact, however, it must be taken into account that this only and exclusively blocks the contact within the application, so that by means of a text message or An external call to the application will also be able to contact your number.
So if you want to completely block it from the cell phone, then there are other ways to achieve it, because WhatsApp is only an application and is not directly connected to our sim card.
Can someone see your profile picture or write to you when blocked?
As mentioned, WhatsApp deprives our information of the number or contact that we have blocked, limiting it to only appear in your contact list, but without showing any type of trace of your device or your account so that WhatsApp reserves the entire information from your account to the person who is blocked, in a simple and summarized way we can tell you that they see, and that they cannot see the contact that you have blocked in the application .
- It cannot access your profile photo , so you will see the default photo that WhatsApp uses when we create the account and we do not have a profile image.
- He can write you but the messages will not arrive , WhatsApp cuts the sending and delivery of text data from both multimedia to a blocked user, so that he will only have one check.
- You cannot see your WhatsApp status , as everything that you upload to your status is blocked, it will not appear in view of the blocked person, this ensuring that your information is protected.
- It cannot see the last time you entered the application , so it does not matter when was the last time you opened the application, the blocked contact will not be able to see it either.
- It cannot see if you are online , and most importantly, the blocked contact will not even be able to see if you are online or have the application open so that you can be writing with other numbers and the blocked number will not know.
The blocking option basically turns you into a ghost in the contact list of the person who is blocked, blocking any type of access to your contact within the application, so in a nutshell they cannot observe any of your activity in the application no records.
The only thing left on the device is the previous chat registration , but with the impossibility of not being able to receive a message from that contact again, which has been put on the application’s block list.
Another less restrictive way to avoid that a contact cannot see our profile photo is to go to the application settings and within it select account, and once inside select the privacy option, there will appear our profile options, where We can adjust who can see our profile photo, our information, the status and the time of the last time, it also has the deactivation or activation of the reading confirmation so that it limits the contacts to know if you read or opened a message .
