How to Disable WhatsApp Blue Tick on Android Phones Easily

Don’t want to let people see whether you read the message or not on WhatsApp? Is the two blue ticks troubling you? Here’s the solution for it, read our tutorial carefully and follow it step by step to disable WhatsApp Blue Tick feature on Android Smartphones. The most popular messaging app introduced their read receipts feature quietly few months back. It shows one tick when the message is sent then the one “grey” tick turns into two when the message is delivered on WhatsApp. Now, with the read receipts feature rolled out in the app, it allows to see users whether the message is read or not. You cannot find privacy setting to remove or disable the read receipts feature from WhatsApp until you update the APK file of it. Here we come up with a easy tutorial on How to disableWhatApp Blue Tick on Android phones.

Side Effects of Disabling WhatsApp Blue Tick or Read Receipts Feature

Before reading the tutorial on How to remove Blue Tick of WhatsApp, you should know that you would also not be able to see if receipts see your message or not. If you want to use this feature then you also need to allow other users to see “read receipts”. For now this is the only possible way to Disable WhatsApp Blue Tick on Android Smartphone. Let’s go through it.

How to Disable WhatsApp Blue Tick Feature on Android

• If you have WhatsApp installed in your Android phone then uninstall it right away then follow the step of the tutorial of removing WhatsApp Read Receipts Feature.

• To apply this method you need a Android Smartphone which sports Android 2.1 or a newer version. Then enable the ‘Download from Unknown Sources’ under the Security tab of settings menu.
• Now go to the website of WhatsApp and download the latest APK file of it or just click here to get APK of WhatsApp for Android. Then just open it and it will give you the option to install the latest version of the messaging App.

Final Steps of Removing WhatsApp Blue Tick on Android Smartphone

Once it installed in your phone just follow the guide to disable blue tick of Whatsapp below.
Now open WhatsApp and touch on the three vertical dots icon on the top right of the App, then just open the settings menu on WhatsApp and go to Account tab and then Privacy.

You will see a option called “Read receipts” under the Privacy tab, just uncheck it and it will remove the “WhatsApp Blue Tick”

Wrap Up

Hope you have found our tutorial on removing WhatsApp Read receipts feature useful. This guide to disable WhatsApp Blue Tick is only for Android users. But this feature won’t be available if you download the app from Google Play Store. Android users have to download the APK file of WhatsApp from its official website to uncheck Read receipts, the link for downloading it we have already shared in the tutorial section of How to remove or disable 

WhatsApp Blue Tick on your Android devices in just few minutes.