How to Hide Last Seen on WhatsApp

How to Hide Last Seen on WhatsApp

There are a lot of things to love about WhatsApp, but it has its downsides too.

Downsides like the barrage of messages from people you’re never going to respond to, and the dreaded giveaway that leaves nothing secret – “Last Seen” notification, so everyone knows exactly when you were online,

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and when their messages reached you. There are some workaroudns to preserve your privacy on WhatsApp though, and we can tell you how.

Everyone
When the information will be visible to all WhatsApp users.

My contacts
When the information will only be visible to users added in your WhatsApp contact list.

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Nobody
When the information cannot be seen by any WhatsApp user and neither can you see their Last Seen information. Unfortunately when you are Online then the information will be visible to all.

First decide what you want to set the option to, then use the following steps to change the setting, depending upon your platform.

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WhatsApp for Android

How to Hide Last Seen on WhatsApp

1. First launch Whatsapp and then click on Menu in it. Commonly it’s a 3-dots symbol on the top right-corner and for those who have a menu button in the three capacitive button at the bottom can access it from there (usually bottom left-most or right-most touch capacitive button).
2. Under the Menu user will find Settings.
3. Tap on Settings and find Privacy option and select.
4. Under the Privacy, users can see the Last Seen option under Who Can See My Personal Info.
5. Just tap on it and select whom do you want to show the information – Everyone , My contacts  and Nobody 

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WhatsApp for iPhone

How to Hide Last Seen on WhatsApp

1. First launch Whatsapp and then tap on Settings in it, located at the bottom right corner.
2. Now in Settings find an option says Account.
3. Tap on Account and then tap on Privacy in it.
4. Now finally tap on Last seen to change it from Everyone (info will be visible to all) to My contacts (Will not be visible to people other than WhatsApp contacts) or Nobody (No one can see the info and neither can you see their Last Seen info).

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How to avoid Stolen/ Lost Laptop disaster

Avoid Stolen/ Lost laptop disaster

Guess how many laptops are stolen or lost each year?  According to technology research firm Gartner a laptop is filched every 53 seconds. That’s approximately 1440 laptops snatched each day. Annually it adds up to roughly half a million. Given that approximately 50 million laptops are sold annually, it’s an awful lot of theft and loss… and an awful lot of distressed people.

Deeply personal

Laptop theft isn’t about numbers, it’s deeply personal. People who have laptops stolen often feel vulnerable and even stupid. It can also eat away at a sense of security.

That said, often it’s not the big things that are lost that cause upset but the little things like photos of family and friends, files that hold personal information and sound or music files.

If your laptop is lost or stolen there are a number of steps you can take to minimise the damage:

Password protect your laptop 

• Set up your laptop so you have to enter a password every time you boot up. It should be difficult-to-guess and composed of capital letters, numbers and symbol.
• Enable two-step authentication on any site that holds personal data such as Facebook, Twitter and Google.
• If you already have a lot of ‘complex’ passwords you could store them on a cloud service like Dropbox, if you trust it or another service to be secure.
•  Alternatively a password manager can be used which allows you to log in with one universal password.

Encrypt your hard drive

The hard drive holds all the data on your computer. There are stories about villains of various stripes that have attempted to destroy evidence on computers by throwing them into swimming pools or even setting fire to them.

But hard drives are tough and not easy to destroy. This is why it’s a good idea to encrypt your laptop hard drive. If someone does a ‘snatch and run’ with yours they’re in for a disappointment because an encrypted hard drive doesn’t give up information, even if it’s taken out of a computer.

An encrypted hard drive is like Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (his full name) in the Rocky films, near indestructible whatever is thrown at it. There are quite a few hard drive encryption tools out there. To find one that is suitable carry out an Internet search.

Clean up your laptop

It’s not a bad idea to ask yourself whether you really need to have all those files on your laptop. If you can strip the data on your hard drive back to the bare essentials, the teeth gnashing stress of a lost or stolen laptop can be reduced to a tic in the eye.

Ask yourself whether you really need to carry your blueprint for world domination everywhere you go? It’s likely that many files would be better off on your home computer, external storage or even a memory stick, as long at its tucked away safely.

Back up, back up… and back up

This is a golden rule that many of us ignore. If we don’t back up files imagine the devastation when a laptop is lost or stolen? All of that hard work and personal stuff, gone. Forever.

It’s easy to put off backing up data so the best thing to do is get into the habit. Every time you boot up your laptop at home or the office, plug in an external drive, or use a cloud service, and back up. Apparently after repeating an act 22 times it becomes habitual. So there you go. In only three weeks and the blink of an eye and you’ll be backing up like a pro.

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How to remove write protection from SD Card & Pen Drive

In this generation we all have any one kind of storage device in the form of Hard Disk, SD Card, Pen Drive and many more, and 50% of people will face this problem due to misbehavior with their storage devices like Remove any USB device without safely eject, and some face this on SD card due to mass storage access with PC and eject phone hardly and caused SD Card write protected, so below is the solution to solve this problem permanently and be safe in future.

Solution 1

Look for write protection switch on your SD card slot if it's on then turns it off and then try again to write data on your card

Solution 2

Scan your SD Card or USB Drive with a updated anti virus software it's because of sometime virus block the devices for write protection and I recommend to perform this task before step ahead on further solution. 

Solution 3

Now this solution is little bit with manipulating registry file of your write protected device, below is the step to update a registry file to fix your write protected device.

1.   Press Windows + R key to open Run menu

2.   Type regedit and hit enter to open regestry window

3.   Now navigate to this path  Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM                   \CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies and make some value change in WriteProtect dword file with below step

4.   Double click on a  WriteProtect dword file to change the below listed value in a Value Data field and restart the computer to make changes effect if required.

If value data = 1, it means that Yes, write protect my USB storage device.

If value data = 0, it means that No, don't write protect my USB storage device.

Note : In some case there is missing StorageDevicePolicies key in a parent key called control Key so you have to make a StorageDevicePolicies key in a parent key called control Key then you have to create a new file called DWORD (32-bit) value in StorageDevicePolicies below is the step to create a key called StorageDevicePolicies and dword (32-bit) value called WriteProtect file.    

  

5.   In regestry editor navigate to this path Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\

6.   Right-click Control key, and select New > Key, named StorageDevicePolicies.

7.   On the right panel of StorageDevicePolicies, right-click and select New  DWORD and give it name as WriteProtect.

8.   After creating the DWORD file perform the above Step No 4 and restart to make changes effect

Solution 4

If you are familiar with command prompt in windows then you have to try below command to unlock your SD card or USB drive.

Note : Perform the below step after inserting your SD card in to the USB card reader and run CMD Prompt with administrative rights.

1.   Press Windows + R key to open Run menu

2.   Type CMD and hit enter to open command prompt

3.   Now in command terminal type diskpart to run disk partition utility

4.   Type list disk and hit enter, it will show you the available disk on to the CMD prompt

5.   Type select disk 1 to select the disk, in my case it is disk no 1 so I select 1.

6.   Type attribute disk clear readonly to clear write protection flag from your SD card or USB drive.

Now check your device is remove from write protection or not if it's work then it's great for you if not then please go ahead for further operation, but before we go ahead I recommend you to take your device backup to other device because in this further operation your SD Card or USB Drive is going to format, so further operation is given below:  

7.   Type clean and hit enter to clear the assigned letter to your SD Card or USB Drive

8.   Type create partition primary and hit enter to create a primary partition on your selected disk

9.   Type select partition 1 and hit enter to select a partition no 1.

10. Type active and hit enter, it will active the selected partition on your disk.

11. Type format fs=ntfs quick or format fs=fat32 quick of your choice file system and hit enter to perform a quick format operation on your selected disk.

12. Type assign and hit enter and it will assign a letter to your drive and make it accessible.

Now check your device is remove from write protection after complete format operation or not if not then there is some serious issue with your disk which may be solve in many cases using linux tool called sdtool can be found here. There is a Raspberry Pi build, otherwise you'll have to build from sources.

Solution 5

Some serious issue in your SD Card or USB Drive may be locked via MMC write protection flag (perhaps your phone did that for some reason on your SD Card). Unfortunately, this can be fixed by a card reader which presents as a USB mass storage device (that is, most of them) If you have a Linux computer with a real SD/MMC card reader, try sdtool can be found here in linux it will solve 95%

1.   Open the terminal and type fdisk -l and hit enter it will show you the available disk same as windows CMD prompt but the command structure is different.

2.   Type sudo sdtool /dev/mmcblk0 unlock and hit enter it will unlock a write protection from your SD Card or USB Drive.

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