If you’ve decided to block someone on WhatsApp, you may have noticed that their name, phone number and photo may still be visible in the app’s blocked contacts list. After all, is it possible to delete this list and keep people blocked?
How to Delete Blocked Contacts List on WhatsApp
To preserve your privacy, you may wish to remove all visible contacts from the WhatsApp blocked list. This measure prevents anyone from having access to your preferences and causing unwanted embarrassment.
Unfortunately, several forums and websites have methods to delete the contact list that do not work. Worse, these methods can result in the irreversible loss of conversations, images, videos and other content stored within the app.
One of these methods talks about deleting the WhatsApp account and creating a new one. This will indeed clear your list of blocked contacts, but it will also unblock all of them, after all a new account will not have any blocked contacts. So, in addition to just masking a solution, this action unblocks the contacts and allows them to get in touch with you again through the messenger.
What does WhatsApp say?
According to the WhatsApp support page, the only way to remove numbers from this list is to unblock them. If you want to delete the name associated with a number from the space that collects blocked numbers, you must go to your cell phone’s contact book and remove it from there. Doing so removes the name from the list, but the number continues to appear.
How to Unblock a Contact on Android
- Tap the three dots button;
- Select “Settings”;
- Tap “Account”;
- Enter “Privacy”;
- Press the option “Blocked”;
- Tap on a blocked contact and select “Unblock (contact)”;
How to unblock a contact on iPhone
- At the bottom of the screen, tap the “Settings” tab;
- Enter “Privacy”;
- Press the option “Blocked”;
- Tap on a blocked contact;
- Scroll down and select the “Unblock (contact)” option.
If you have concerns about the messages, photos, videos, and other media you send to contacts, here are nine privacy details of the temporary message on WhatsApp.
