What Happens When You Report Someone on WhatsApp and How to Report

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What Happens if You Report Someone on WhatsApp

Before we move on, let’s first understand what is report in WhatsApp. It enables users to flag inappropriate content, actions, or behavior, allowing healthier digital communication. It’s a necessary tool as spam messages are becoming pretty common.

By reporting a message, you escalate the issue to WhatsApp. In turn, the WhatsApp team looks into the matter and decides whether to ban the user or leave them with a warning. And here’s what WhatsApp does when you report someone.

Note: Reporting a number doesn’t guarantee that the person will be banned from using WhatsApp. Banning a reported number happens at WhatsApp’s discretion.

What Happens to Old WhatsApp Chats When You Report a Number

When you report someone to WhatsApp, the conversation is not automatically deleted. It remains intact on your device unless you manually delete it. However, if you choose the ‘Report and Block’ option, your chats with the person will be deleted completely.

Can a Reported Number Send You Texts or Call

Well, WhatsApp gives you two options when blocking a number or group. The answer to this question depends on what option you choose. If you choose to

Can You Send a New Message or Call the Reported Person

Again the answer lies in the option you choose if you choose to,

If You Report and Block Someone on WhatsApp, Will They Know

When you block or report someone on WhatsApp, the person you’ve taken action against will not receive any explicit notification informing them about it. Moreover, if WhatsApp takes action against them, won’t even be informed about the ban either.

Upon getting banned theycan’t use their WhatsApp account. However, if you’ve also blocked the person, they mayrealize that they are blocked on WhatsAppwhen they are unable to interact with you as usual.

How Long Does It Take WhatsApp to Ban a Reported Number

As per WhatsApp, it takes user reports seriously and investigates each case thoroughly. However, the duration for banning a reported number may vary based on the severity of the reported content and the number of similar reports received.

So, no one really knows. Additionally, WhatsApp will not update you about the progress. Whether they found any reason to ban the number or decided to let it do, is their discretion and no one will know about it.

How to Report Someone on WhatsApp

While you can choose to ignore ormute some messagesordelete WhatsApp messages without opening them, some spammers irritate you by bombarding non-stop messages. You canblock the numberto stop receiving messages; however, you can report them to help others.

How to Block or Report Unknown Number on WhatsApp

When you receive a WhatsApp from an unknown number, WhatsApp automatically offers you three options.

To report a number on WhatsApp, simply tap Report. Here, you’ll get two more options (as mentioned above), choose as per preference.

How to Report Any Whatsapp Number

If you’ve interacted with an unknown number, or if the number is stored in your contacts, WhatsApp will not offer the block/report option directly. For that scenario, follow the steps below:

Step 1: Open thechatyou want to report. Tap thecontact name or numberfrom the top.

Step 2: Scroll down to the bottom and selectReport number/contact.

Step 4: Next, select apreferred optionbetween,

If you’ve selectedReport and Block, select the reason and then tapBlock.

How to Report a WhatsApp Group

Step 1: Open theWhatsApp group chat. Tap thegroup namefrom the top.

Step 2: Scroll down to selectReport Group. Select apreferred optionfrom,

When you chooseReport and Exityou’ll leave the group and a complaint will be sent to WhatsApp about the group’s activities simultaneously. That means you will no longer be a participant/member of the group.

Consequently, the group (and the group’s messages) will also be deleted from your phone. On the other hand, choosing to only Report a group without exiting doesn’t change your status in the group.

While you’ll still remain an active member, WhatsApp will work on the report. Everything will appear quite normal.

Report View Once Photo or Video on WhatsApp

While WhatsApp introduced the disappearing messages feature to provide users with more privacy, many have been misusing the power. Thankfully, you can report abusive View Once media on WhatsApp.

To do so, open theWhatsApp chat→ tap and hold the offensiveView Once media→ selectReport→ then choose,ReportorBlock or Report.

FAQs Regarding Reporting WhatsApp Number

While you can unblock a number, you can’t un-report it. However you don’t need to worry as if the user doesn’t violate any rules set by WhatsApp, they will not be blocked or banned.

As stated in the article, when you report and block the chat is automatically deleted. And even after you’ve unblocked the number the chat won’t reappear.

No, the reported user is not notified when you report and block them, and the conversation is only deleted from your device.

The same rule applies to WhatsApp business accounts. WhatsApp will keep track of the conversation and check if the user is violating some rules.

WhatsApp takes each report into account and bans the reported number or group upon rule violation. However, if there are multiple reports from multiple users, the process might be quicker.

Although you can unblock the user anytime (WhatsApp → Settings → Privacy → Blocked → select the number → Unblock), you can’t retrieve the deleted chats.

No, blocking and reporting numbers won’t delete their contact from your phone or your contact from their phone. The blocked user can still send you messages or calls, however, you won’t receive the text, call, or even the notification about it.

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Last updated on 26 July, 2024

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