What Active Hours shows
It is built from the same presence record as Online History. Active Hours is a lens on it, not a different signal.
- The last time the contact was online before the night began, night by night.
- The first time they came online in the morning.
- Every online session during the night, with times and durations.
- Ten nights side by side, so a normal night and an unusual one are easy to tell apart.
Night-time activity at a glance
Most people's phones go quiet at roughly the same time each night and wake up at roughly the same time each morning. Active Hours turns those two moments into a simple timeline per night. When the routine holds, you see it. When one night runs late, you see that too.
This is what people mean when they ask whether someone was online at night on WhatsApp: not a single last-seen stamp, but the shape of the whole night.
What Active Hours is not
It does not show who they were talking to, and it does not read anything. Online at 2am means the app was open at 2am; ChatWatch does not know why. Treat it as a pattern to notice, not as proof of anything.
It also cannot see through privacy settings. If a contact hides their online status from you in WhatsApp, their nights are hidden from ChatWatch as well.
Getting Active Hours
Active Hours is part of every plan. Subscribe, add the contacts you want, and Active Hours begins filling in from the first night.
Common questions about Active Hours
How many nights does Active Hours show?
- The last 10 nights for each tracked contact, each with the last connection before bed, the first in the morning, and any sessions in between.
Can Active Hours tell me who they were chatting with at night?
- No. It shows when the contact was online, not with whom. Shared Hours can compare two contacts' activity, but that is a pattern, not a message log.
Is Active Hours included in every plan?
- Yes. Every plan includes Active Hours, Shared Hours and Online History for every contact you add.