How to hide your WhatsApp profile picture from users

WhatsApp has privacy features like blocking a contact or hiding profile pictures. WhatsApp profile pictures can be saved by contacts or users, or even by taking a screenshot.

WhatsApp rolled out many features this year like the Always Mute feature, multiple device support feature, WhatsApp Payments and Carts for WhatsApp businesses, etc. The messaging platform also has privacy features like blocking contacts. It also gives users the option to hide their profile picture from all contacts. WhatsApp profile pictures can be saved by contacts or users, or even by taking a screenshot. WhatsApp gives users the option to hide their profile picture from contacts who are not added to their contact list. It also gives users the option to hide their profile pictures from all contacts.

How you can hide your profile picture:

• Open WhatsApp.
• Go to Settings > Account > Privacy.
• Tap on Profile Photo.
• The default setting is ‘everyone’ in the list of options.
• If users want their profile pictures to be displayed to their contacts, select ‘My contacts’
• Select Nobody if you do not want the photo to be displayed to anybody.

Once the profile picture is hidden, a grey avatar appears on the user’s profile and in WhatsApp chats.

There is no option on WhatsApp to hide a profile picture from only certain users. However, users can remove those users from their contact list and then set the privacy to only My Contacts from WhatsApp.

 How to read and send messages without opening the chat:

WhatsApp users can also read and send messages without opening the chat. Users can either give a verbal command to virtual assistants like Siri and Google Assistant to help you read messages. Users can also read and reply from the screen when they receive a message on WhatsApp.

 How to reduce the data usage:

WhatsApp also gives the option to reduce the data used in a call by following the given steps:

• Go to Settings > Data and Storage usage.
• Under the Call Settings section > Enable Low Data Usage option.

WhatsApp users can also keep track of how much storage chats are taking up. WhatsApp has an option where you can view your contacts and how much space they are taking by following these steps:

• Go to WhatsApp > Storage and data usage > Storage usage.