How to Block a Contact on WhatsApp

Virtually everyone has WhatsApp and we often use it to communicate with friends, family, to make video calls with colleagues or even strangers for whom we have to contact for any professional reason. But that makes the messaging application also full of trolls, spam or strangers that continually annoy you. But you can block a contact on WhatsApp to prevent them from contacting you or sending you messages continuously without your permission.

You can block a contact on WhatsApp in just a few seconds and you will prevent them from continuing to send you messages, send you photos, etc. In addition, you can also report or report that person if you are constantly harassed or spammed. Or you can simply block someone you dislike or bother you with forwarded messages, chains, photos and memes that fill the gallery of your mobile.

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Why do we block someone?

Basically, blocking a contact on WhatsApp will prevent them from communicating with us through the messaging application. You will not be able to speak to us in individual chats nor will you be able to see our profile picture, our connection time or our WhatsApp status. You also cannot make voice calls with us or invite us to video calls. Keep in mind that you can communicate with us through groups in the application if you are in it.

How to block

You can block people from the conversation with that contact, whether you are talking or not. Good because it is bothering you, because you do not know anything about that person or for any other reason.

To do this, follow these steps:

  • Open the WhatsApp conversation with that contact if you don’t have it open or go to that chat window if you already have a conversation.
  • Once inside, click on the three points in the upper right corner
  • Go to the option “More …”
  • Choose the option that India “Block contact”
  • It will allow you two options: Block or report and block
  • Check “Block” and they will not be able to contact you again

Bloquear a un contacto en WhatsApp

In the event that you click on “Report and block”, WhatsApp will include this contact in the blacklist in case other users also follow your steps. It is especially useful if you need to report someone’s harassment, spam, etc.

If someone has written to you and you don’t have their number, you don’t necessarily have to add it to your contacts to block it. When someone talks to you on WhatsApp and is not in your agenda, at the top of the screen you will see that there are two options: Block and Add. Click on “Block” and the number will pass to your blocked contacts and they will not be able to contact you again until you undo this option.

Contactos bloqueados en WhatsApp

Check blocked contacts

It is possible that you have blocked many annoying people throughout your life or since you use the messaging application and you do not even remember who can talk to you and who cannot. For this you can consult the list of all the contacts that you have blocked and you can decide whether or not to give them a second chance.

To check your blocked contacts, just go to WhatsApp settings:

  • Open the messaging app
  • Click on the three dots in the upper right corner
  • Go to “Settings”
  • Choose the first option, “Account”
  • Go to the Privacy section
  • Scroll and you will find “Blocked Contacts” and a number
  • If you tap on this option, you will see who is blocked

Once here, you can press and hold the person you want to unlock it. So she can talk to you again or you can talk to her. Also from here we can block people in block if you want to do a “cleaning” of your contact list. Tap the icon in the upper right corner and the full list of all contacts on your mobile phone will open. Once it is open, all you have to do is touch the numbers you want to block, without doing anything else. It is fast and effective if you want to organize the application in just a few minutes.

How to block group

There are no concrete ways to block a WhatsApp group, but you can prevent them from including you again. To do this, it will be enough for you to individually block all members of the group or those who appear as administrators. So they can’t add you. In addition, the messaging application has an option that allows you to restrict who can add you to groups and whether or not they can do so without your prior authorization. To access it, you just have to follow a few steps:

  • Open WhatsApp on your mobile phone
  • Click on the three dots in the upper right corner
  • Go to WhatsApp Settings
  • Click on the Cuenca option
  • Go to Privacy
  • Look for the “Groups” option
  • Here you can choose “Who can add you to groups”
    • Everyone
    • My contacts
    • My contacts, except …
  • Confirm with the Ok button

Evitar que te añadan a un grupo de WhatsApp

How to know if you have been blocked

There is no exact way to know if you have been blocked on WhatsApp. There is no foolproof trick except asking that person, but there are several aspects that you can take into account if you have suspicions. What should we look at ?

  • Connection time. It may be that someone has simply turned off the connection time, but it can also be a sign that you are blocked in the application. If other people see it and you don’t, you can keep checking.
  • Profile photography. Like the connection time, the profile picture may have disappeared. That person may have deleted it, but if other common contacts see it and you don’t, you have probably been blocked.
  • The main and easiest way to know if someone has blocked you is to check the ‘checks’ of the messages. It may only appear one by mistake or because the person does not have the phone on but if for a long time that message is kept with a single check and never with two, this is the clearest symptom of blocking. Of course, it is possible that that person does not have the Internet or has his mobile off so there is no foolproof trick to check that we are or are not blocked, except for his own intuition.