How to Turn Off or Disable WhatsApp Status Feature?

How to Turn Off or Disable WhatsApp Status Feature? With the new developed WhatsApp Status highlight, the world’s greatest texting administration is advancing from “content just” statuses to incorporate pictures and recordings. This component takes off to all clients on February 24, corresponding with WhatsApp’s eighth birthday celebration.

WhatsApp Status is very like contender Snapchat’s prevalent Stories highlight and the vaporous Statuses will be obvious to contacts for 24 hours to contacts contingent upon the client’s security settings. The new element gives clients a chance to share photographs, enlivened GIFs or recordings with illustrations, pictures or inscriptions overlaid. As indicated by WhatsApp, the Statuses will be end-to-end scrambled like other correspondence on the informing administration.

However, many people isn’t liking WhatsApp’s Status feature and they want to turn it off. But, there is not any inbuilt feature in the app to turn off or disable Status feature. My today’s article is on same topic.

Method #1: Using Preferences Manager [Root Required]

Preferences Manager is an Open Source application that allows you to seamlessly edit application’s preferences.

Android provides several options for developers to save application data. The most frequent solution is the Shared Preferences framework. It’s a simple way to store private primitive data in key-value pairs. Unfortunately, this method is not very secure… It consists in a simple XML file stored in the private folder, specific to the app. But in the case of a rooted device, theses files can be read, edited and even deleted.

Preferences Manager allows you to edit these preferences in a simple and easy way. You can for instance increase your highscores, modify your progression, or just debug your application preferences.

Prerequisites

• Your Android phone must be rooted (How to Root?)
• Install Preferences Manager in your Android phone

How to Turn Off or Disable WhatsApp Status Feature?

1. Go to your phone’s Settings.

2. Then tap on Apps > Whatsapp and then Force Stop button.

3. Now, open up Preferences Manager app and grant superuser permission.

4. Its time for creative work. Search the text status_mode.

5. Now, change the value for status_mode from 1 to 0 and hit Update button.

6. Relaunch Whatsapp again. That’s it.

Method #2: Using Text Editor [Root Required]

The method of disabling the Status feature in WhatsApp is again same as method #1. But, with this method, you just need any good text editor. You can also use your phone’s inbuilt editor as well.

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have enabled “/” & “/System” to RW.
• Use Root Explorer (Recommended)
• Your Android phone must be rooted (How to Root?)

How to Turn Off or Disable WhatsApp Status Feature?

1. Go to your phone’s Settings.

2. Then tap on Apps > Whatsapp and then Force Stop button.

3. Go to /data/data/com.whatsapp/shared_prefs/com.whatsapp_preferences.xml

4. Open com.whatsapp_preferences.xml file with a text editor.

5. Search for below line:

<int name="status_mode" value="1" />

6. Replace above line with below:

<int name="status_mode" value="0" />

7. Save the file and relaunch Whatsapp.

Method #3: Using WATweaks [Root Required]

Prerequisites

• Download and Install WA Tweaks in your Android phone
• Download and Install Xposed Module Framework (Recommended)

How to Turn Off or Disable WhatsApp Status Feature?

1. Go to your phone’s Settings.

2. Then tap on Apps > Whatsapp and then Force Stop button.

3. Launch WA Tweaks app and head to the Customizations tab on the bottom.

4. Under the Main UI heading, you’ll find toggles to turn on or off all tabs in the WhatsApp app, hide only the Status tab and hide Status and Calls tabs.

5. Relaunch WhatsApp. That’s it.

Method #4: Using Xposed Module Repository [Root Required]

Prerequisites

• Download and Install Xposed Module Framework
• Download and Install WhatsApp Extensions in your Android phone.

How to Turn Off or Disable WhatsApp Status Feature?

1. Open up Xposed Module app.

2. Go to Module > Activate Whatsapp Extensions and Reboot your device.

3. Go to your phone’s Settings.

4. Then tap on Apps > Whatsapp and then Force Stop button.

5. Open up Whatsapp Extensions app.

6. Now Turn off Status features and relaunch Whatsapp.

Method #5: Using GBWhatsApp [No Root Required]

Prerequisite

You just need to download GBWhatsApp if you want to disable Status feature in Whatsapp.

How to Turn Off or Disable WhatsApp Status Feature?

1. Install GBWhatsApp and setup your WhstaApp account

2. Once installed, in the WhatsApp home screen, on the top right tap on the Three dots for the options.

3. Go to GB Setting > 6 Other Mods.

4. Now here, check on 6.8 OLD UI to disable new Status feature.

5. That’s it.

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