If you’re like most people, you probably use WhatsApp to keep in touch with close friends and family. But if you want to keep your WhatsApp status hidden from specific friends, there are a few steps you can take.

  1. Create a new WhatsApp account and password. This will help protect your account from being accessed by anyone who isn’t authorized to see it.
  2. Add the following line to your profile: “WhatsApp Status: Hidden.” This will make sure that all of your contacts who are not members of your group will not be able to see your WhatsApp status unless they are also members of the group that has the “WhatsApp Status: Hidden” setting enabled on their account.
  3. If you want to show your WhatsApp status to specific friends, set up a call or chat session with them and then send them an update on your current situation using the “WhatsApp Status: Show” button in their chat window.

Your WhatsApp Status (which appears as a Story) is visible to everyone on your contacts list by default. However, you might want to hide your status from specific friends. Here’s how you can do that in WhatsApp.

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How to Hide Your WhatsApp Status From Specific Friends

Unlike Facebook, WhatsApp doesn’t allow you to limit specific status updates to select folks. However, you can limit who all can see your status updates.

To get started, open the WhatsApp app on your iPhone or Android.

Tap on the “Settings” button in the bottom-left on iPhone. On Android, you’ll have to tap the three vertical dots and select “Settings.”

Select “Account.”

Next, tap “Privacy.”

Then tap “Status.”

Select the “My Contacts Except” option, and you’ll then need to pick the specific friends from whom you want to hide your future WhatsApp status. You can scroll and select the contacts or search for them by name.

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Tap “Done” after you’ve selected the relevant contacts.

Now select the “Status” button in the bottom-left corner, tap on your profile icon and add a new status to test the new changes.

Besides that, you can also disable read reciepts to stop those friends from knowing that you’ve read their messages.

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