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About status privacy
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You can choose who can see your status by adding them to your status audience or mentioning people or groups in your status. By default, your status updates are shared with all your contacts.
Note:
- People or groups you mention in your status can reshare it to their audience.
- Resharing allows their audience to see the content of your status, but doesn’t reveal your name, profile info or phone number.
- You can mention people who aren’t in your contacts.
Change your status privacy
Change your status privacy settings to share your status with all your contacts or selected contacts only.
- Tap the Updates tab.
- Tap > Status Privacy.
- Select one of the following options:
- My contacts: All your contacts will see your status.
- My contacts except…: Only contacts in your phone’s address book, except those you exclude, will see your status.
- Only share with…: Only the contacts you select will see your status.
If you share your status update to your Facebook story, your status update will use the existing story privacy settings that you've chosen on Facebook. Learn about information shared when you share your status update to Facebook.
Note
- Changes to your privacy settings won’t affect status updates you’ve sent already.
- If you choose to mention people or groups in a status, they can see your status—even if they aren’t in your status audience. When you mention a group, all the group members can see the status. This won’t change the audience settings for future status updates. Learn more about status mentions here.
- If you delete a contact who has viewed an update, the contact will remain on the list of viewers until the update expires.
- If a contact has disabled read receipts, you won't be able to see if they've viewed your status updates. This includes statuses where you’ve privately mentioned someone directly.
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- How to share WhatsApp status to other apps
- About status mentions