Much to the chagrin of its users, WhatsApp
quietly introduced read receipts (letting people
see exactly when a message is read, not just
delivered) earlier this month. The app always
showed one tick mark when you sent a
message, which changed to two grey ticks when
it was delivered. Now, the app shows two blue
ticks when the recipient has read your message
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This feature was rolled out without an update
to the app itself. This means that there was
no privacy setting to disable read receipts
when the feature was rolled out. The lack of
this basic feature in WhatsApp really ticked us
off, and we had promised that we'd be back
with a tutorial on how to disable WhatsApp
blue ticks as soon as it was possible. True to
our word, here we are now that WhatsApp has
unveiled this feature for Android.
Here's how to get rid of those annoying blue
ticks in WhatsApp - but if you do this, then
you won't be able to see the receipts either. If
you want to check when other people see your
messages, then you need to allow them to see
read receipts from you. For now, this is only
possible for Android users, and only if you
manually update the app via the WhatsApp
website. WhatsApp typically releases updates
first via its website, and then rolls out the
update for Android's Google Play store,
followed by updates for other platforms, so the
update will be available for all devices soon.
The first step is to get the latest APK file
from WhatsApp:
1. Download the latest (version 2.11.444)
WhatsApp apk from the official website.
2. On your Android phone, go to Settings >
Security > Check Unknown sources, to
enable installing apps from outside Google
Play. Note that the exact path to the
setting can vary depending on your device
manufacturer and Android version - the
important thing to note is that you enable
installing apps from unknown sources.
3. Open the apk on your Android phone. This
will install the latest version of the app on
your device.
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Once the app is installed, here's how to disable
read receipts:
1. Open WhatsApp and tap three vertical dots
icon on the top right.
2. Now go to Settings > Account > Privacy .
3. Uncheck Read receipts.
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That will disable the blue ticks on WhatsApp. As
we noted above, feature isn't available on
other platforms or on Google Play as yet, but
now that this feature has appeared on the
official WhatsApp apk, we can hope that an
update will bring it to all platforms. We will
update this article when that happens. Until
then, you can head to our How To section for
more tutorials.
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