30 WhatsApp Tips & Tricks – Hidden Features Revealed

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Voice chats

If you are busy communicating in a group conversation and your fingers are already hurting, you can switch to voice chat. You start it by swiping up and holding your finger in any group chat. But when you start a voice chat, it won’t start ringing the whole group, anyone who is currently “on call” will be able to join.

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Alerts in groups

Group conversations are nice because you don’t have to write something to individual contacts, but you tell everyone at once. But if they have a lot of members, they can overwhelm you with notifications, or on the contrary, you have them completely muted, which may not be good either. But now you can set the priority of notifications. Just click on the group, choose Notifications and tap Notify on. Here, switch to Selection, whereupon you will receive a notification only if you are mentioned or someone responds to your messages.

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Document scanning

Sending a document on WhatsApp has not been a problem for quite some time. But if it was a scan, the problem was that you either had to take a picture of it in the application or scan it first with another application. However, iPhones already offer a direct scan option, which is, however, somewhat hidden. In the conversation, you must first click on the plus icon, then click on Document, and then select the Scan document menu. Subsequently, the scan interface will be displayed, which will automatically capture the document and offer you the option to crop it.

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WhatsApp z PC

You don’t have to use WhatsApp only from a smartphone or tablet, but also from a computer. So you don’t have to switch from device to device while working, and you can handle the conversation on a full-sized keyboard and a large monitor.

Just go to www.whatsapp.com and choose Download. You install the app and open it. Tap on Try it out and log in via your phone via the QR code on your computer monitor. You do this through the menu of your Profile photo and choices Connected devices –> Connect devices. Then you just scan the code on your phone and you are logged in on your computer.

It is even easier and actually sufficient to use the web interface at web.whatsapp.com. Here too, you will need to connect your computer to your WhatsApp account for the first time, but after that you will get the same features as in the app. Sometimes even more, because the channels were offered by the website before the application.

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Automatic message deletion

WhatsApp can automatically delete old messages. This has two advantages. One is that you will regularly relieve your storage, the other is that if someone gets to your device, they will not read rights older than the interval you specified for their deletion. To do this, select a conversation and click on its menu. Choose here Automatic message deletion. Subsequently, you can select the given interval or select the chat Try the default time intervalto set it for all new chats. This will not affect existing conversations, for which you must manually set the interval.

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How much data are you using?

If you’re worried that an app is using up too much mobile data, you can find out exactly how much. On the menu Network usage you will get an exact breakdown of the total number of messages sent and received, as well as of course the data sent and received. You can then reset the statistics below.

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Delete the message

I’m sure you know it too, the situation when you sent the message to another conversation. If you don’t want to apologize, you can delete such a message from her. Just long-press on it and select Delete. Then select the messages you want to delete from the conversation with a check mark and click the trash can icon. This way, you can delete messages not only for yourself, but also for all recipients when it comes to group conversations.

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Lists

Lists allow you to filter chats according to your chosen categories. You can have relatives, colleagues or even neighbors on the list. This makes it easier to focus on important conversations whenever you need them close at hand. You can easily create lists by tapping the + sign in the filter panel at the top of the Chats tab. To edit the list, hold it.

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Read receipt

If you don’t want the other party to know if you’ve already read the received message, you can turn off this display of two ticks. That way, no one will know if you didn’t actually read the message or if you’re just not responding because you don’t want to (can’t). When you turn it off, you will of course also stop seeing the given progress with your contacts (this does not apply in group chats).

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Chat pinning

If you want to keep an eye on the most important chats, you can pin them. Just swipe right after a contact or group. Subsequently, you will see the option to mark the chat as unread, but there is also a menu next to this option Pin it. When you select it, that chat will automatically move to the top, where it will be prioritized over others. You can also have more pinned chats.

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Ankety

You can also create polls in WhatsApp, which of course is especially useful in group chats. To do this, just click on the plus icon and then select the Survey menu. Then you ask the question and add the answer options. There is also an offer to enable more. You can use it if you decide where to go on a trip, where to go to a restaurant, what to go to the cinema for, etc.

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Channels

WhatsApp wants to be more social and not just provide communication between users. That’s why he created Channels on them, which is something like Facebook pages. You can find them on the first News tab. Here you can select recommended channels or explore others. You can also search, but WhatsApp only shows verified channels in the results, not all.

Channels differ from WhatsApp communities in that communication is one-way only. In this way, you get information from the channel operators, and you can then respond to posts with an emoticon.

Tip: Log in our channel Discount Watcher. We are constantly looking for discounts and interesting prices on things related to electronics and computers. But discount events often don’t last long or stores may only have a small amount of discounted products. It is therefore important to learn about them as soon as possible, and the WhatsApp channel is ideal for this.

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Communities

Surely you know Facebook groups dealing with certain topics. Communities are trying to offer a similar function on WhatsApp. So they got a separate card, even though it’s just a more advanced version of group chats. Here you can start a new community that will connect your apartment building, school, workplace, interest group, etc. If you don’t know what to expect, you will also find a detailed explanation here. Then you just enter a name, choose a profile photo and invite the first members.

Community members can invite other users and those others. If you want, you can be a member of many communities present, the number doesn’t really matter.

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Mobile data restrictions

The Storage and Data menu offers an Automatic media download section. Here you can define how the application should behave for photos, audio files, videos and documents. You can specify that you only want to download them on Wi-Fi and thus save mobile data.

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Creating a sticker

If you are a fan of stickers, you can already create them in WhatsApp just like in Android and iOS. To do this, just click on the appropriate icon in the text field and then click Create. Then you just select the photo from which you want to make a sticker – i.e. its main object.

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Avatar creation

WhatsApp allows you to create a virtual avatar instead of your profile photo. You can do this completely manually, that is, you first choose your skin tone, choose your hairstyle, beard cut, clothing, body, eye shape and color, eyebrows, etc. When you’re done, just hit Done, save your changes, and you have a virtual character in your place. Here, however, you can have a selfie generated, which you can theoretically have without any work or just fine-tuning the details.

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Change of phone number

If you have a new phone number, you can change it from the existing one in the app. Just go to Settings your profile, choose here Account and select an offer Change phone number. After such a change, account information, groups, and settings will be migrated. Here you can also automatically inform your contacts that you have changed your number. You will not lose your chat history when you change your number.

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Removing the largest data

WhatsApp offers management of the media that takes up the most storage on your device. Not only can you see which chats have the largest amount of data, but you can also see which files are larger than 5MB. However, you can remove them directly from there, which will significantly save the internal storage of your device.

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Change the wallpaper

The app has a standard wallpaper that will appear as the background on all your chats. However, you can change this wallpaper. You can choose from colorful, dark or monochrome galleries, but of course also from your own photos. If you want, you can also change the notification sound here.

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Submit your location

WhatsApp lets you share photos and videos, as well as a contact or document. But you can also share your location if you want. This is very useful when you need to meet a contact somewhere, or just want them to know where you are (eg within a family). If you choose to share your location, it will allow your contact to see it for a period of time that you choose.

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Last activity

If you don’t want others to know when you were last active on the network, you can easily turn off this display. Keep in mind, however, that even you will not be able to see when any of your friends last logged into the application.

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Hide profile picture

You might not want everyone to see your profile picture, especially if you’re part of several groups where you don’t even know all of their members. Therefore, you can choose whether everyone, no one or only your contacts will see your picture.

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Text formats

Some words sometimes need emphasis. This is also why WhatsApp knows how to format text. If you want bold text, put an asterisk before and after it, for example *like this*. For italics, use an _underline_ in the same way, and for strikethrough text, put the text ~between tildes~. If you want to use a fixed-width font in the text, enclose it on both sides with three backslashes like “`text”`. To add a bulleted list to your message, place an asterisk or hyphen and a space before each word or sentence, such as * text or – text. For a numbered list, just start with 1 with a period. Mark the quote: > text and code `text`.

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News with an asterisk

When someone sends you an address, account number, or any other valuable piece of information that you know you can refer back to in the future, you can star it. All you have to do is hold your finger on the message and select the desired menu. You can then find the messages marked in this way in the settings and the tab Messages with an asterisk.

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Blocked contacts

It’s not unusual for someone to want to spam you. But you can also block a contact if you simply don’t want to be in touch with them anymore. In this case, just select the given conversation with the contact, click on their name and choose Block user (name) at the very bottom. The list of blocked ones can be found in Settings, Privacy, Contacts and blocked contacts. You can also unblock them here.

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How to find out that you have been blocked

If you try to text someone but they still don’t respond, they may have blocked you. If you send a message to a contact who has blocked you, you will always see only one tick (message sent), two whistles (message delivered) will never be displayed. If you try to make a call with that contact, you will not be connected. However, due to privacy protection, you will not find out that you have actually been blocked.

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Drawing into a photo

If you want to send a photo to someone, you can take it right away in the interface. But before sending, it can still be annotated, not only with text, but also with hand-drawn elements. Use the paper swallow symbol to send the edited photo to the contact.

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Backup or delete chats

So that you don’t lose your chats if you lose your device or switch to a new one, simply back them up. You can also turn on automatic backup here, so you don’t have to worry about it anymore. Previously these backups were not encrypted, now if you want you can turn it on in the menu below.

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Exporting chats

WhatsApp also allows you to export chats, which is useful if you need to get some information from the application. Here you simply select the given conversation and determine whether you want to export it with or without media. After that, you will see a classic sharing offer paid by the operating system, where you can send the chat to the cloud, computer, e-mail, etc. The content is compressed into ZIP and then a pure text extract in TXT.