How do you know if you are blocked on WhatsApp?
Has it been a long time since the previous reply to the message? Have no reaction to funny videos, animations that were sent to a friend, or does the person not answer WhatsApp calls at all? The user may have added your account to the blacklist. This can be determined in two ways: ask a question to a person directly (if there is such an opportunity) or solve a riddle, according to a number of prompts. We’re here to help solve the puzzle.
How to block a contact on WhatsApp?
The WhatsApp messenger allows you to easily block contacts, you don’t even need to indicate the reason. A corresponding notification is not displayed to the second party, just all messages and calls are ignored. If you no longer want to receive annoying calls or continue a meaningless chat, just block the subscriber.
Instructions:
- In the messenger go to “Settings”,
- Open the “Others” section and select “Block”.
- Confirm the action by touching the “Ok” button.
The newly blocked contact will no longer be able to pester. However, if for a long time there is no response to messages in WhatsApp from one or a pair of contacts, it is possible that the reader himself was blacklisted. It is quite possible to determine whether you have been blocked, and it does not matter which subscriber is on the other side of the screen.
How to tell if you have been blocked on WhatsApp?
All you need to do is follow 4 simple steps, which will eventually give you the information you need.
Check when a user was last online on WhatsApp.
Information about the last visit of the persecuted person is publicly available. It is displayed in a green bar at the top of the page. The time of the last visit to the messenger is shown next to the contact’s name. If for some time there is no access to such information, one of the following conclusions can be drawn:
- the other side has blocked the reader;
- the subscriber has disabled the display of the visit time through the privacy menu;
- the user has turned off the transfer of information on his page, if you turn off the option on his page, the login date will no longer be displayed for other contacts.
If the online icon or a previous visit time is displayed, the profile is not blocked.
Send a message and count the number of checkmarks
The next way to calculate whether a person has blocked WhatsApp requires a simple action – sending a message. After that, you need to pay attention to the number of checkmarks and their color.
- one gray check mark means the message was successfully sent;
- two gray elements – the second party received the message;
- two blue check marks – the message has been received and read.
True, WhatsApp allows you to turn off read confirmation messages, as well as online status. This is done in “Settings” in the “Account” section on the “Privacy” tab.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that one check mark may indicate that the recipient’s phone is turned off or the Internet is disconnected. It may also be that the recipient looked at the message in the notification on the display, but did not open the WhatsApp application.
Check the contact’s profile photo
This is the most effective way to find out if a contact has actually blocked a WhatsApp reader. After being blacklisted, the ability to view photos of a person from their profile disappears. Instead of a picture, a gray icon is displayed with a silhouette of a person. Those who have not yet taken a photo have the same image.
The only situation when the method does not allow determining the presence of blocking is when the contact has always remained with the standard avatar.
Try to add a contact to a new group
The next method is to create a group and try to add the desired contact to it. If it is blocked, it will not work. This method is quite effective, but it also does not give 100% of the result.
The developers deliberately did not introduce a special message about blocking contacts in WhatsApp. They chose to leave the provision ambiguous to protect user privacy. Let there be no direct way to know if a reader is blacklisted. However, by putting all the clues together and turning on a little intuition, everything will become clear.
