With this trick of the application, you will be able to know where your contact is in real time without him knowing it. Here are the steps to follow.
WhatsApp is the most used messaging application not only in France, but all over the world. Since its launch, it has continued to evolve to provide a better experience for its more than 2 billion active users. Today, we show you a super useful trick for your daily life. Have you ever wondered if it was possible to find out the location of a WhatsApp contact without them sending you their location in real time? The answer is yes, and here’s how.
An easy way to find out a contact’s location through WhatsApp without them sending you their real-time location is to find their IP address. For this you will need a computer running Windows. Here are the steps to follow to determine the location of the person you are interested in without them knowing:
- Be sure to close all programs on your computer, so that you don’t have too much information displayed
- Login to whatsapp web and let it run in the background. Do not use the downloaded application on Windows 10 only the website.
- Start a chat with the person you want to locate and only them.
- Press the Windows key (to the left of the spacebar) and the R key simultaneously to open the Run function, then type “cmd” and press Enter.
- In the command prompt, type “netstat -an” and press Enter.
- All the IP addresses connected to your computer will be displayed on the screen, including that of the person you are looking for. Hence the interest of closing all other applications in order to reduce this list as much as possible.
- Go to the page https://www.ipinfo.io/ and enter the IP address you got in the previous step. The approximate location of that person will appear immediately.
- So you can know the location of any WhatsApp contact.