How to Access Someone’s WhatsApp Account

This wikiHow teaches you how to open and view someone else’s WhatsApp account on a computer. Monitoring a person’s conversations without that person’s permission is an invasion of privacy, so before you take any of the steps below, make sure you’ve received permission. their consent.

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Steps

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Open the WhatsApp app on the person’s phone. The app has a white phone icon in the dialogue box.

If the person hasn’t set up WhatsApp, ask them to go through this step before continuing.

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Tap the Settings (iPhone) or the ⋮ (Android) button. For iPhones, the Settings option is located in the lower right corner of the screen, while the ⋮ button on Android devices is in the upper right corner of the screen.

If the WhatsApp app opens to a chat pane, you’ll first need to tap the “Back” button in the upper-left corner of the screen.

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Tap the WhatsApp Web/Desktop option near the top of the page (iPhone) or near the top of the drop-down menu (Android). On Android, you need to tap on the WhatsApp Web entry.

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Open the WhatsApp website on your computer. You’ll see a black and white frame near the center of the page; Here is the QR code that you need to scan with the back camera of your phone.

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Point the back camera on the person’s phone at the QR code. The phone screen is now facing you, and the camera will point to the QR code on the computer.

If this phone has scanned QR codes with WhatsApp before, you’ll need to tap Scan QR Code near the bottom of the screen to turn on the camera.

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Wait for the code to finish scanning. If the camera can’t recognize the QR code right away, try moving the person’s phone closer to the computer screen. Once the QR code has been scanned, the WhatsApp Web application opens; The program allows you to view all other people’s WhatsApp messages on your computer.

Messages that you are viewing on WhatsApp Web will be updated as the person sends and receives new messages.

Advice

The owner of the WhatsApp account you are accessing can log out of their account at any time by opening the app on the phone, going to the settings panel, tapping WhatsApp Web , then clicking Log out from all computers (Log out from all computers) is in the middle of the page, and finally select Log Out when prompted.

Warning

Accessing someone else’s WhatsApp profile in this way without their permission is a serious invasion of privacy and this person has the right to sue you before the law.

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Advice

Warning

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