KARACHI: Whatsapp blue ticks designate that you can never ignore a message again. If you’re someone who relishes taking your time replying to a message, you won’t be able to make the exculpation that you’ve just visually perceived a message. The incipient system is extra evil because you can even optically discern the exact time a message was read by holding down the message then clicking info to get timestamps, though one way to bypass the blue ticks would be to expeditiously read the message when it emerges via push notification. Just don’t accidently open the app or your cover is blown.
WhatsApp messages have always been accompanied by ticks to show sent and distributed messages, but they have additionally been the source of some mystification. Now the company has come up with the blue double click that represents a message has been read, heedfully aurally perceived or viewed. Still, people have found some clever ways to disable the WhatsApp blue ticks.
According to peregrine media reports, the simplest way are withal the most conspicuous, ‘don’t use WhatsApp’. Or if it’s that paramount then go to WhatsApp notification settings, Pop-Up Notifications and cull ‘Only when screen off’. Now, when you next get a message your screen will illuminate with a message pop-up. You’ll have the option to ‘View’ or ‘Close’ but hitting either one of these will transmute the marks from gray to blue. What you want to do is hit the home button on your phone instead.
Another way is to utilize WhatsApp widget, long press a blank space on your home screen to bring up the widget manager. Integrate the WhatsApp widget to your home screen and when incipient messages come in, even ones that are several lines long, you will be able to read them in the widget without affecting the blue check marks. Of course, if you tap the message in the widget it will launch the app.
