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The parent commenter is talking about the "currently online" indicator, which can't be disabled. From a (strangely worded) WhatsApp doc: > Please note you can'

• Eun 5y ago
  That’s one of the reasons I jailbreaked my phone, to be able to control which app can access which data and when.
  • zuppy 5y ago
    your answer doesn’t make any sense in this context. this is a standard whatsapp feature that can not be turned off. you can disable networking and open whatsapp and that flag will not be sent, but also your conversations won’t get updated. jailbreaking doesn’t change any of this.
    • dec0dedab0de 5y ago
      If you have root you could decrypt the traffic on the fly, and block any data that is not necessary for basic functionality. Maybe even run squid locally, and configure it there. I doubt that's what they meant, and it would take a bit of reverse engineering, but would be kind of fun.
    • Eun 5y ago
      https://watusi.fouadraheb.com/ https://watusi.fouadraheb.com/ Check the privacy features.