Sometimes in life, you may not want certain people to know what you are doing, how you are doing it and with whom you are doing it. At such times, you may even wish for a given person not to be part of your life. With the advancement in technology, a number of programs, apps and software are available to make communication with different people in different parts of the world possible. WhatsApp is one of those applications. As a messaging app, WhatsApp is able to connect millions of people around the world at the blink of an eye which is why it is one of the most used platforms at present. People are able to exchange text messages, audio messages, images and video messages. Most importantly, no matter the time of day, people are able to communicate.

What Happens When You Block Someone On WhatsApp?
Unfortunately, with the ease of communication may come a need to bar some people from your profile. This is where the block option comes into play. So, what happens when you block someone on WhatsApp? First of all, you will no longer be able to receive WhatsApp calls or messages from them. Secondly, your online information and your ‘ WhatsApp last seen’ information will not be available to them. In addition, any status updates you make will not be visible to the persons you have blocked. These are just the major things that answer the question what happens when you block someone on WhatsApp. Besides not being able to check out your status updates, the person you have blocked will also not be in a position to view any changes you make to your profile photo.

As for your communication to the person you have blocked, not being in position to call or send messages to the person is also part of what happens when you block someone on WhatsApp. That being said, blocking someone should be a last resort when you absolutely have no intention of hearing from them for whatever reason! This is because any attempt to contact you through the platform will be futile. Same applies for when you try to contact the blocked party. What you will notice however is that the blocked person’s contact remains on your WhatsApp list since this is what happens when you block someone on WhatsApp, the feature remains unchanged until you remove the contact by yourself from your WhatsApp list.

Down the road when you decide to unblock the person that you blocked on WhatsApp, you should not expect to receive any of the messages the person sent during the time they were blocked. This is another part of what happens when you block someone on WhatsApp. In case you are wondering, the other person may not even know that you have blocked them since there are several other reasons that may also result in a person not seeing another person’s status updates, their ‘last seen’ information or their message not getting delivered. One of the reasons could be that the person changed WhatsApp numbers and the change is not registered in the other person’s phone. As for the ‘last seen’ status not being shown; it is possible to manually disable a person’s ‘last seen’ information. As such, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have been blocked in case you are unable to see another person’s ‘last seen’ status!

Last but not least, even though you might think that the double check marks in the message sent indicate that the person has read the message. Such may not always be the case as a person may read bits of the message from the message they receive and not bother to read the rest thus leaving the single check mark on the message to indicate ‘message not read’