Interactive tutorial · ~4 min · 10 steps
Settings & privacy
Settings let you blur names, avatars and messages for screen sharing, change the interface language and hide tools you don't use.
Runs on a fictional copy of the screen with a voice guide. Nothing you click reaches WhatsApp.
What the tour covers, step by step
Blur names and messages before you share your screen, pick a language, hide tools you don't use and check your plan.
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Privacy blur: one click before you share your screen
The eye icon on the rail is the master switch for privacy mode. Off by default — click it right before a screen share or a demo in a public place.
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Let's start with the most useful switch on the rail: the eye. That's Privacy blur. Off by default. The moment you're about to share your screen on a call, or open WhatsApp Web in a café, click it once. Click again to turn it off. Nothing about your chats changes — it only changes what other people can see.
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Names, photos and messages are hidden
With privacy mode on, profile pictures, contact names, message previews, the messages in the open chat and media are blurred. Hover anything to read it.
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Watch the window: profile pictures, contact names, the last-message previews, every message in the open chat and any photos — all blurred. You can still work: move the mouse over a chat or a message and just that item un-blurs while you hover, so you read what you point at and nobody else reads the rest.
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The settings drawer and language
The gear at the bottom of the rail opens the settings drawer. First section: Language — Português (Brasil), Español or English. It changes the extension's pages, not WhatsApp itself.
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The gear at the bottom of the rail opens the settings drawer beside it. The first section is Language: Portuguese, Spanish or English. It changes the extension's own pages and panels — WhatsApp Web keeps its own language setting.
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Privacy Settings: choose what to hide
Enable privacy mode is the same switch as the eye. Underneath, pick what gets blurred: Profile Pictures, Contact Names, Last Message Preview, All Messages in Chat, Media Preview — all on by default.
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Privacy Settings is the eye's control panel. Enable privacy mode is the same master switch. Below it you choose what gets hidden: profile pictures, contact names, the last-message preview in the list, all messages inside the open chat, and media. They're all on by default. A common tweak: keep names visible but hide messages, so you can find a chat during a demo without showing what was said.
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Sending safety lives here too
Lowers the risk of restrictions: randomised gaps, typing indicator, daily and hourly caps, quiet hours, contacts-only. The Campaigns tour explains each switch — leave them on.
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The next section, Sending safety, is about lowering the risk of your WhatsApp number being restricted. It adds human-like pauses between sends, shows a typing indicator, caps how many messages go out per hour and per day, and can keep quiet at night. The Campaigns tour walks through every switch; for now the advice is simple — leave Protect my number on, and use Warm-up mode on a new number.
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Backup and the AI assistant
The Backup buttons all open the Backup & restore page. AI Assistant explains where to find it in a chat and has Configure AI Assistant; Advanced settings opens the Options page.
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Two more sections. Backup has three shortcuts — create a backup, import one, or set the automatic schedule — and all of them open the Backup and restore page you saw earlier. AI Assistant reminds you where the assistant lives inside a chat and shows how requests are routed right now; Configure AI Assistant and the Advanced settings link both open the Options page.
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Where AI keys live: the Options page
The Options page has the AI card: the active model and one key field per provider (Gemini, GPT, Groq, OpenRouter) with Show/Hide and Test. Keys are stored in this browser and never shown to anyone else. Save changes to apply.
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This is the Options page — also reachable from the popup's gear. The AI card is where your keys live: choose the active provider, then paste one key per provider — Gemini, GPT, Groq or OpenRouter — with Show and a Test button that checks the key works. Keys are stored in this browser's extension storage on this computer and are only sent to the provider you chose. Language saves instantly; the AI and API fields need Save changes at the top.
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Hide tools you don't use
Menu Features (rail → sliders icon) lists every rail item with an Open chip and a switch. Turn Scheduling Center off and its icon leaves the rail. Chat backup and Privacy blur can't be hidden.
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If the rail feels crowded, open Menu Features from the sliders icon. Every tool is a row with an Open chip and a switch. Turn Scheduling Center off — see the calendar icon disappear from the rail. The tool still works and keeps its data; it just isn't in your way. Chat backup and Privacy blur always stay.
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Your account and plan
Open the account modal from the chat-tools panel header or Choose a plan. It shows Plan, Status and Billed Until, Manage Subscription (billing portal), Refresh subscription status and Logout.
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Last, your account. Open it from the header inside the chat-tools panel, or from Choose a plan. It shows your plan — monthly, yearly, lifetime or free — the status, and the date you're billed until. Manage Subscription opens the billing portal to change a card or cancel. And if you've just paid and the extension still says trial or locked, press Refresh subscription status: it asks the server again, and it can take a minute after payment to show up.
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Set up once, forget about it
Pick your language, decide what privacy blur hides, hide the rail items you don't use — then remember the eye icon before your next screen share.
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That's settings and privacy. Spend two minutes once: pick your language, decide what privacy blur hides, and switch off the rail items you don't use. Then just remember the eye icon before your next screen share. The Dashboard keeps an eye on everything else — every card there has an Open button.