How to Choose a Private Audience for Your WhatsApp Status
Not all WhatsApp status updates are for all audiences. Fortunately, WhatsApp allows you to set a specific private audience for each status. This article will show you how.
How WhatsApp’s Private Audience Selector Works
How many times have youposted a WhatsApp statusand received a text or call about it from someone you would’ve preferred hadn’t seen it? It’s happened to the best of us. Truthfully, not all status updates are for everyone.
Your weekend shenanigans, quirky musings, and political and social views are intended for different audiences—even though you know everyone on your WhatsApp. You should be able to post whatever you want on your status. It is your WhatsApp account, after all.
And although you could block some contacts from viewing your status updates, you don’t mind them seeing some of your updates. But adding and removing them from your status blocked list and overallblocked WhatsApp contactsis a tedious process. That’s why WhatsApp rolled out its private audience selector feature—to allow you to choose a private audience for each status update.
The private audience selector feature was introduced in aWhatsApp blog postin February 2023. Here’s how to use it for your status updates.
How To Select a Private Audience for Your WhatsApp Status
Setting an intended audience for your WhatsApp status is as simple as uploading a status—with an additional step. Follow the guide below to get started:
You’ll have to do this for every status update, otherwise, WhatsApp will exclude the people you’ve provisionally blocked from viewing your statuses.
Control Who Views Your Next WhatsApp Status Update
With WhatsApp’s private audience selector, you may hide specific status updates from prying eyes in seconds—no more awkward moments explaining statuses that certain people shouldn’t be privy to.
You might think you know everything about WhatsApp. However, like anything tech-related, there are always more tricks, tips, and features to learn about and use.
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