How to Tell If Someone Is Online on Viber for iPhone or iPad

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See the last time a Viber contact was active with these simple steps

Co-authored by Megaera Lorenz, PhD

Last Updated: September 22, 2024 Fact Checked

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Using the Chats Menu

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Using the Contacts Menu

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Adjusting Your Privacy Settings

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This wikiHow teaches you how to check a Viber contact's online status or last-seen date, and see if they're currently online, using an iPhone or iPad.

Quick Steps

Open the Viber app.
Go to the Chats tab.
Tap on a chat.
Look just below the person’s name at the top of the chat to see their status.

Method 1

Method 1 of 3:

Using the Chats Menu

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Open Viber on your iPhone or iPad. The Viber app looks like a white phone icon in a purple speech bubble. You can find it on your home screen, or in a folder.
- If Viber opens up to a conversation, tap the
  icon on the top-left to go back to your Chats list.
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Tap the Chats tab. This button looks like a speech bubble icon in the lower-left corner of your screen. It will open a list of all your personal and group chats.
- Viber typically opens to the Chats tab by default when you first launch the app.
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This will open the conversation in full-screen.
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Check your contact's last-seen date at the top. Find your contact's name on the white menu bar at the top of your chat conversation, and check if it says "Online" below their name.
- If your contact is currently offline or idle, this line will indicate their last-seen date, which is the last time they were on Viber (e.g., “Last seen 6 min ago” or “Last seen a long time ago.”).

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Using the Contacts Menu

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Open Viber on your iPhone or iPad. The Viber app looks like a white phone icon in a purple speech bubble. You can find it on your home screen, or in a folder.
- If Viber opens up to a conversation, tap the
  icon on the top-left to go back to your Chats list.
It’s at the bottom of the screen, just to the left of the Chats tab. You’ll see recent calls at the top (if you’ve made any). Scroll down to see a list of all your contacts below your call history.
This tab will exclude all your phone contacts who don't have a Viber account, and only show contacts who are on Viber.
This will open their profile page.
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Check your contact's last-seen date at the top. Find your contact's name at the top of their profile page, and check if it says "Online" below their name.
- If your contact is currently offline or idle, this line will indicate their last-seen date, which is the last time they were active on Viber.

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Adjusting Your Privacy Settings

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If you don’t want everyone to see your online status on Viber, you can easily turn this feature off. Launch the Viber app, then tap More in the bottom right corner of your screen.
Tap the Settings option in the new screen that opens up.
It’s near the top of the Settings menu.
This will open a menu where you can adjust whether your online status is visible to others or not.
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Choose your preferred privacy settings. For instance, if you don’t want your online or last seen status to be visible, tap OFF. You can also turn read receipts on or off in this menu.
- Just be aware that with a free Viber account, if you turn your online status off, you won’t be able to see anyone else’s, either.
- If you want to be able to turn off your online status and read receipts while still being able to see other people’s, you’ll need to subscribe to Viber Plus. You can do this by going to More > Viber Plus and following the prompts to sign up.
  - Once you’ve signed up, you can turn on Invisible Mode by going to More > Settings > Privacy > Online Status/Read Receipts and taping Invisible.
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Block a contact to hide your status from them. As of June 2024, there’s no way to set your online status as visible to some contacts and not others. However, if you really want to hide from one person in particular, you can block them. To do this:^{[1]
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- Go to the Chats tab and tap on a chat with the person you want to block.
- Tap the name of the person at the top of the screen to open a dropdown menu.
- Tap Chat Info & Settings.
- Scroll down to the bottom and tap Block this Contact.
- If you don’t have a chat with the person you want to block:
  - Go to More > Settings > Privacy > Block list and tap Add Number at the top of the screen.
  - Select the person you want to block from your contacts list or type their full number, including country code, into the search bar at the top.
  - Confirm that you want to block them by tapping Done at the top right corner.

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If a user has their online status set to OFF in their privacy settings, if they’re a Viber Plus subscriber with Invisible Mode enabled, or if they have blocked you on Viber, you won’t be able to tell whether they’re online or see their Last Seen status.

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If you can’t see anyone’s online status, make sure that you have your own online status set to ON in More > Settings > Privacy > Online Status/Read Receipts. If you subscribe to Viber Plus, you can use this same menu to enable Invisible Mode, which allows you to see other people’s status while keeping yours hidden.

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