WhatsApp is the main communication channel for millions of people around the world, thanks to its several features that go beyond a service allowing you to exchange text messages in a conversation. Today, the application allows sharing of video calls, audios, short videos, or gifs.
Due to its high popularity, this instant messaging platform has also become a widely used resource to maintain close contact with certain individuals, which has also allowed the generation of emotional ties with third parties that could affect a relationship.
This situation is often a headache for those who suspect infidelity from their partner, as WhatsApp is a digital platform that hides several tricks facilitating the activities of someone who is unfaithful.
An example of this is the « stealth mode » of WhatsApp, a tool that allows hiding the activity that a user has with a certain contact through chats and other elements.
However, what some people ignore is that there are also a few methods to find out if a person uses this resource to keep their actions clandestine.
How to know if a WhatsApp contact is in stealth mode?
If a user wants to know what their boyfriend or girlfriend is doing on the instant messaging platform, there is an option that allows them to find out if they are hiding a specific contact.
Log in to the WhatsApp application. In the main menu of ‘Chats’, click on ‘Archived’. Once you have opened this option, you can view the contact or contacts that your partner is hiding from you. The WhatsApp application for Android allows you to select all the chats at once.
While the « archived » feature was initially implemented in the Meta app with the aim that users could better organize their conversations, to avoid annoying notifications or the task of deleting every chat that is not of interest, this tool has been used with the aim of hiding compromising conversations.
However, this resource is still a very useful alternative to keep the chat section clean.
Thus, you can configure your WhatsApp to receive a notification when a contact logs in
Although WhatsApp has very useful tools such as group discussions, voice notes, or photos that can only be viewed once, the Meta app does not yet have a tool that quickly reveals to the user which contacts have logged in to the application.
In fact, this feature was one of the strengths of MSN Messenger, a platform that, years ago, was the most used instant messaging service by all people with a PC with internet access.
At that time, Messenger generated a screen notification indicating the name of the contact who had logged in to the service. Thanks to this option, a user could easily know who was online and could also quickly start chatting with this person.
Although WhatsApp has the small notice « online » as an option to indicate if a contact is active in the application, this feature is not entirely comfortable as the user is forced to review each chat to know who is connected.
Thus, the popular instant messaging application still has a simple resource that allows discovering who has logged into the application.
However, there is currently a way to know which contacts have connected to the instant messaging application; moreover, it is a safer method because it does not require downloading APK files that often hide malicious programs designed to infect devices with viruses.
How to receive a notification when a contact connects?
To resort to this resource, it is essential to go to the Google Chrome browser and download the WA Web Plus extension, a tool available on the Chrome Web Store. This plug-in has the ability to modify the web version of WhatsApp to offer a series of functionalities that are not present on Meta’s official platform.
To download this extension, it is enough to write in the address bar the words ‘Chrome Web Store’, then you have to look for the tool ‘WA Web Plus’. You have to click on the ‘add to Chrome’ button, for the tool installation to begin.
Once the installation is completed, a window will immediately appear with a series of functions to apply in the WhatsApp Web chats. From this new menu, the user will have access to other options to use the Web version of WhatsApp, in this case, it will be crucial to select the feature called ‘Notify about online contacts’.
Once the function is enabled, the user will begin to notice that a small notification will appear at the bottom of the browser every time a contact connects to the platform.
The advantage of this feature is that the user can also click on the notification to immediately open the conversation they have with this contact, so it is also a resource that works as a shortcut.
It should be noted that WA Web Plus is an add-on for Google Chrome that has a security certification and its creators assure that this service will never collect user data or information present in conversations.