The WhatsApp messaging application has never released an official feature that lets users know if their contact has been blocked by a friend or not. However, with these indications it is possible to approach with absolute certainty  the answer we were looking for.

The different indicator symbols  present in the messages (ticks, last seen, profile picture, etc.) often create confusion.

Usually you start to get suspicious when you haven’t received any more messages for some time. Absolute emptiness, no conversation, our “suspicious” contact seems to have disappeared. So, you enter his profile and you realize that the status update dates back to months before (eg. “Sun, sea, summer”, you can read in his status on WhatsApp, but we are in winter … something is wrong). Then, when your suspicions start to swell, you realize that her profile photo is gone too …

Who hasn’t happened to never see a friend’s profile picture again and think they’ve been blocked? Good. Thanks to this tutorial that you find below you will be able to dispel any doubts. If someone has blocked you on WhatsApp, you are now able to find out.

Before defeating your enemy, however, it is necessary to know him.

So let’s see how a WhatsApp contact is blocked and, subsequently, the four different methods that allow you to find out if someone has decided – reasonably or not – to cut off our communication via WhatsApp.

How to block a WhatsApp contact

When you block a contact on WhatsApp, any possibility of sending and receiving messages, photos and videos is automatically canceled. Furthermore, by activating this option the blocked user will no longer see our status updates, profile picture updates and, if we have the “last access” option active, this too will not be viewable.

NB Remember that when you block a contact on WhatsApp, not only will you no longer receive his messages, but you will no longer be able to contact him either.

Blocking a contact is really simple. Let’s see the classic method that works on all devices (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, etc.):

Open the application and follow the path: settings> Accounts> Privacy> Blocked (or blocked contacts)

Select the ” Add new ” button and select the contact to block from your address book, which will be added to the “list of blocked contacts”.

IPhone shortcut: if you use WhatsApp on iPhone, there is also a quick alternative to block a contact: when you receive a message from a user we don’t have in the address book, three options will appear under the phone number: block, edit, add. Therefore select “block” to activate the “contact block” function.

Ps: when you block a user on WhatsApp, they are NOT automatically deleted from either the WhatsApp contact list or your phone’s address book. To do this, you need to delete the unwanted contact directly from the address book.

# 1. 5 methods to find out if you have been blocked on WhatApp :

As anticipated, let’s see in detail five different methods to find out if we have been blocked on WhatsApp. Each of these is flanked by a reliability coefficient (ca) which indicates on a scale from 1 to 100 the reliability of the method.

To find out, watch this summary video or continue reading the guide.

1. Technique of the last visit (about 45%)

The first thing to check to find out if we’ve been blocked is to check the suspect’s “Last Visit” feature. To do this, just open a conversation with him (without writing anything) and check what appears right under his name contact him. If you see “Last accessed at …” then it is certain that you have NOT been blocked. If, on the other hand, nothing appears, there is a good chance that you have been placed on his “blocked contacts list”.

Margin of error: Lately this method has lost reliability after many users have decided to hide the last login time.

2. Technique of the profile photo (about 65%)

The technique of the profile photo is similar to the previous one but with a higher degree of reliability, thanks to the fact that it is not possible to “hide” the profile photo as it happens for the last access. This method, in fact, consists of opening the profile of the suspicious contact and checking the status of his profile picture. If you can’t see it, then it is likely that that contact has blocked you. In fact, when you block a contact, you eliminate the possibility for that user to see the profile photo.

Margin of error: it could happen that a user simply decides to delete the profile photo, diverting your search.

3. Single tick technique (about 55%)

The third method we have available concerns the famous “ticks” (the small green v’s that appear at the bottom right of the message and which indicate whether it has been sent / read / received). If you have been blocked, you will always see a single check next to the message and you will never see the double check (two small green v’s).

Margin of error: this method can be fallible if the suspicious contact knows the technique to read a message without making the ticks appear or if it falls within one of these particular cases.

4. Almost perfect technique (ca 90-99%)

The first three methods, as their ca indicates, are quite reliable but are still far from that certainty we are looking for. To be completely sure that suspicious contact has blocked us on WhatsApp, we need an extra hand. To give it to us is psychology. Nothing complicated. It involves combining the techniques outlined above with what we know about the suspect’s behavior on WhatsApp. This allows us to overcome the “margins of error” found in techniques 1, 2 and 3.

In practice, it is a question of crossing the data we have available. We collect what we have learned following points 1, 2 and 3, and see if there are any inconsistencies with respect to the usual behavior of the suspect. In theory it may seem complicated, but you don’t need to be a psychologist. Let’s see how to do it with an example.

Example: We want to find out if our contact Marco R. has blocked us. Open his contact on WhatsApp and the last access time does not appear. You have checked the ticks, and you never see the “double” one, and the profile photo is missing. In this case, there are excellent conditions for concluding that Marco has blocked you. To be sure, activate your memory and try to remember what kind of use Marco made of the application.

Usually, the most common scenarios that we will face are two:

1. If he rarely used WhatsApp … it might NOT have blocked you. In this case, double check every day for a week. If you do not notice any changes (for example, the presence or absence of the profile image that until yesterday you were able to view) then you have the answer you were looking for: Marco blocked you.
2. If he used (and uses) WhatsApp dozens of times a day … sure, you’ve been blocked!

Therefore, the more we will be able to cross-reference the data we have collected, the more we will increase the degree of reliability of the answer to the question “how do I find out if a contact has blocked me on WhtsApp?”. The ca, based on our investigative skills, can vary from 90% to 99%, the almost absolute certainty that we have been blocked.

5. The “group” test: be 100% sure you have been blocked (but be careful!)

The four techniques are useful and valid, but they leave that 1% uncertainty about the contact block that we would like to eliminate. Good. The problem was solved thanks to a ” trick ” published by the Hispanic portal Wasap Ninja that allows you to answer with absolute certainty the question we asked ourselves in this article: how do I find out if a contact has blocked me on WhatsApp?

The answer is simple. If all the suspicions indicated in methods 1, 2, 3 and 4 are real, the definitive test can be passed .

Some might think of using this method directly and skipping the others, but the risk of “getting caught” would become too high. We will see it in detail after having how to find out a possible block on WhatsApp through groups.

Let’s start by getting back to the big picture:

What happens when a contact is blocked in WhatsApp?

• Messages sent by the blocked user will not be delivered to the recipient.
• It is not possible to make calls through the application that has been blocked.
• You don’t see the status update, last login, and profile photo changes.

However, these indicators do not necessarily guarantee to find out if someone has been blocked (as we have already seen above).

To know for sure if a block has been set on WhatsApp you need more. Proceed as follows:

• Open WhatsApp and create a new group.
• Search for the contact you suspect you have been blocked from and try to add them to the newly created group.
• If you have not been blocked by this person, the contact will normally be added to the new group.
• If you have been blocked, you will see a message similar to this “You are not authorized to add this contact”. This means that you have been blocked, no more doubts.

The moral of the story is that only unblocked contacts can be added to a group.

But be careful! Although this technique gives the absolute certainty that you have been blocked, you run the risk of being accused of “unfounded suspicions”. If you have not been blocked, in fact, the person you suspect will be added to a fictional group and will surely ask “why did she add me?”. For this reason, and to avoid “being discovered”, before doing the group test it is recommended to use the other methods and have the most founded suspicions possible.

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