You already know that messaging services and social networks allow you to increase privacy by activating or deactivating various features.

In WhatsApp, for example, it is possible to hide the last connection time or to disable the well-known double check.

If you’re interested in seeing someone’s WhatsApp status without the other person knowing, you can do that too, as reported by El Comercio.

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How to see WhatsApp states without anyone knowing

If you have an iPhone, an easy way to achieve this is through the 3D Touch feature, which lets you preview content, in this case WhatsApp says. Here we explain what to do.

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If you want to upload a full long status, make sure the total duration does not exceed 30 seconds.

It should be noted that this trick only works with some iPhone models and you can only preview a contact’s initial status; that is, if the person has uploaded multiple stories, you won’t be able to access them.

Added to this are a series of other tricks, such as uploading a long status on WhatsApp from your iPhone. To do this you must follow the steps that we show you below:

However, if you want to upload a very long status, make sure the total duration does not exceed 30 seconds. To do this, record the video in sections of 30 seconds or less and then merge them using a video editing tool on your iPhone.