Anika Nicole, Wordsmith, PG In Journalism, New York
Answered Jun 16, 2020
WhatsApp is a popular messaging application that is owned by Facebook. The users of the app are able to send messages to each other, as well as make calls. Like many applications, there is an option where to read a message; the user does not have to visit the app itself. Instead, they can use their notification bar to do so. A user can set this up in one of two ways.
The first way is to download the WhatsApp Android widget. This can be downloaded from the WhatsApp website. Another way that a person can see their messages is to pull down the notification from the notification bar.
To read WhatsApp messages on the notification bar you can use the WhatsApp Android widget, or just pull down the notification bar. The widgets can be downloaded from the WhatsAppMessenger website. This is also a good way to read a message without the sender knowing that you’ve read their message.
Open your phone’s drop down menu. Then while viewing the WhatsApp message notification, press and pull down the notification bar using two fingers. You must use two fingers; one finger will not work. If this does not work, it may be that WhatsApp, in an effort to improve security and privacy, has installed new encryption technology which means they can no longer show message preview text in notifications in older versions of iOS and Windows phones.