Choosing Who Can See Each Post You Share
Every time you share something on Whistlr, you get to decide who sees it before you even tap post. This per-post audience choice sits on top of your overall account privacy setting, giving you a way to make a single post more open or more restricted without changing how your account works for everything else you share.
Finding the Audience Picker
When composing a new Chattr post, Imprint, or Minis video, look for the audience selector near the bottom of the share screen, usually labeled with your current default, such as "Public" or "In Circle." Tap it to open the full list of options before you finish posting. This choice is made fresh for every single post, so it never silently carries over from a setting you changed somewhere else.
The audience picker exists separately from your account-wide privacy setting, which controls things like whether your profile is discoverable and who can send you a follow request in general. Think of your account privacy setting as the default backdrop, and the per-post audience picker as a spotlight you can narrow or widen for any individual piece of content, regardless of what your account is generally set to.
The Three Audience Options
Public makes the post visible to anyone on Whistlr, including people who don't follow you, and allows it to surface in Discover and hashtag searches. In Circle Only limits the post to the people in your In Circle, meaning your approved followers, keeping it out of public search and Discover entirely. Custom List lets you build a specific group of people, such as close friends or a project team, who are the only ones who can see that particular post.
Building a Custom List takes just a moment the first time you use it. Select Custom List from the audience picker, then search for and check off the accounts you want included. Whistlr saves the list under whatever name you give it, such as "Close Friends," so you can reuse the same group on future posts without rebuilding it from scratch.
Not every post is meant for everyone, and not every post needs to be a permanent decision about who you are online — visibility should be something you choose moment by moment, post by post.
Changing Visibility After Posting
If you picked the wrong audience, open the post, tap the options menu, and select Edit Audience. You can widen a restricted post to Public, narrow a Public post down to In Circle Only or a Custom List, or switch between custom lists. Note that anyone who already saw or interacted with the post before you changed its audience keeps any reactions or comments they left, even if they'd no longer qualify to see it under the new setting.
It's worth choosing your audience deliberately rather than relying on whatever option happens to be selected by default, especially for posts with personal details, location information, or content meant for a specific group rather than your full following.
- Public: Visible to anyone on Whistlr and eligible to appear in Discover and hashtag searches
- In Circle Only: Limited to your approved followers, excluded from public search and Discover
- Custom List: Visible only to a specific group of accounts you choose and can reuse later
- Per-Post vs. Account Setting: The audience picker applies to one post at a time and works independently of your overall account privacy setting
- Editing Later: Use Edit Audience from a post's options menu to widen or narrow visibility after it's already shared