How to Spy on WhatsApp Without Rooting With Xnspy?

Why Should You Spy on WhatsApp?

WhatsApp is today's leading instant messaging app. It has a user base of approximately 2 billion and is the most commonly used platform. You can use it to send messages, make calls, and exchange multimedia files.

But as we trust the platform, can we trust the people using it? Not quite. Here’s how WhatsApp spying can be useful:

Parental Control

Kids are inquisitive, secretive, and defensive about their cell phones. They want to have all the "deets" at their fingertips as they continue to explore and experiment online.

Little do they know how quickly and fast their bubble can explode. Every other day there are headlines about cybercrimes, grooming, and whatnot on the news, enough to worry parents every day.

Kids don’t appreciate nosy parents, but parents can protect their kids by staying one step ahead of everything. Spying on WhatsApp calls and text messages will help them curb any threat when it comes to their children’s safety.

Employee Monitoring

Many organizations in the past have suffered from employee negligence. Bad actors, or if I may so bluntly say, "rotten apples," can cost a company its reputation and money.

Threats are usually caused by dissatisfied and disgruntled employees, but also because of external hacking and malware attempts.

Most secret conversations take place over WhatsApp. It’s in an employer’s best interest to watch employees’ WhatsApp chats so they protect confidential information and avoid data breaches.

Other than that, spying on WhatsApp will allow them to see whether employees are working or wasting time on the job.

Method 2: Mac Spoofing

This method is widely used, but only by the techies. Mac spoofing is free and fully discreet. However, as part of the prerequisite, you still need the device whose WhatsApp you want to spy on through Mac spoofing.

The other thing about this method is that it’s extremely hard and the results are not guaranteed.

Not because there are some loopholes in the process, but rather the intricacy of the procedure that many people fail at.

What’s Mac Spoofing and What Does It Do?

Every internet-ready cell phone has its own unique ID, which is assigned by the manufacturer of the device. It's like a social security number for your cell phone and is called a Mac address.

No two cell phones ever have the same MAC address. But if someone could successfully create a clone of a device's MAC address, it could pretty much get around the security barriers of that device.

It’s the equivalent of masking your own phone’s MAC address with that of another person, hence the term “Mac spoofing.”

Once you successfully clone the Mac address, you uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp on your phone.

When you do this, the newly downloaded WhatsApp will be the clone of the target person's WhatsApp account, so all those messages sent and received on their phone will get to you, too.

How to Spoof a Phone’s Mac Address?

Mac spoofing works not just on Android devices but also on iPhones, PCs, and Mac computers.

Though this process doesn't require rooting of the target device, your Android device needs to be rooted.

The first step is to get the Mac address of the Android device whose WhatsApp you intend to spy on. For this, go to Settings > About Device > Status > Wi-Fi MAC.

Once you have the Mac address, follow these steps:

• Uninstall WhatsApp on your phone.
• With a rooted Android device, you can download apps like BusyBox or WifiSpoof to mask someone’s Mac address on your phone.
• Reinstall WhatsApp on your phone after changing its Mac address.
• You'll have to activate WhatsApp on your phone. Enter the target person's phone number and not yours. Be mindful that this will send an activation code via SMS to both devices, i.e., yours and that of the target. Make sure you still have their phone so you can delete the activation code text from it.
• Reset your Mac address to the original.

This process, if done successfully, will let you get all the WhatsApp messages of the other person in real-time.

However, the part where you spoof the Mac address is tricky. Also, it requires your Android device to be jailbroken, if not theirs.

We recommend you go for this procedure if you know some computer geeks.

Features Highlight – XNSPY

Xnspy is fully-fledged spyware for Android smartphones. The wide array of spying features lets you focus on more than just the WhatsApp of a person. With Xnspy, you can do the following and a lot more than that: