Are you a social media user who is pretty conscious about your privacy.? You may be one of those people who want to hide their profile picture on WhatsApp and Telegram. In this guide, I will teach you how to do it. People can literally search anyone up on Telegram or WhatsApp if they have that person’s number. Not everyone may be comfortable with any random person finding them out and seeing their display picture.
You can either set your WhatsApp profile picture visibility accessible to folks on your contact list. If you are too privacy conscious you can make the display image invisible to everyone. One better option is to not at all upload your profile picture. Not everyone may like this though. On Telegram, there are options to limit your picture’s visibility to your contacts only. In fact, you can also add exception which particular contact won’t be able to see it while others can. Let’s get into the guide and check out the steps for doing all these.
Hide Profile Picture on WhatsApp
First, let’s hide the profile picture on WhatsApp.
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- Open WhatsApp
- Tap on the 3-dot button on the top-right corner of the screen
- Then from the menu select Settings
- Now, tap on Accounts
- Select Privacy and the first tab you will see is Who can see my personal info
- Under that tap on the option profile photo [by default the visibility would be set to My contacts]
- You will have three options: Everyone, My Contacts, and Nobody.
- If you don’t want anybody to see your profile picture, then select the option Nobody
Otherwise, as I mentioned, by default only the people on your WhatsApp contact list will be able to see your WhatsApp display image.
How to Hide Profile Picture on Telegram
Now, let’s move to Telegram.
- Open Telegram app
- Tap on the Settings icon on the bottom right corner
- Scroll down and select Privacy and Security
- Go to Profile Photo [the visibility will be set to Everyone by default]
- Tap on it and under Who Can See My Profile Photo select My contacts
Adding Exception to My Contacts List
Let’s say there may be a few people in the contacts list of Telegram with whom you may not get along really well or you may not know them personally. So, you would want to hide your display pictures from them. Now, you have set your Profile picture visibility to your contacts which will include the people you want to avoid. So, here you can add an exception and make your photo invisible from those particular users.
- Under the Exceptions tab, select the option Never Share With
- Now, select the contact(s)
- Once done, tap on Done
Now, your telegram profile picture will be visible to every person on your contact list except those users that you have kept in the exception list.
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If you care a lot about privacy, then it’s natural that you would not want anyone on any social media app to view your profile picture. Hence, for Telegram and WhatsApp these are the steps you have to follow to hide your profile picture or make it visible to selective people. I hope this guide will help you out.
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