New whatsapp messages. Add an important contact to your home screen

Whatsapp messenger has already amassed over a billion fans around the world. And all this thanks to the great functionality of the application, ease of use.

But at the same time, many users are unaware of some useful, but non-obvious features. These tricks help make it easier to use and provide advanced messenger settings for comfortable communication.

5 hidden Android features

Destroying media files from the gallery and turning off the display

To improve the performance of your smartphone and whatsapp apps it is recommended to regularly clear the application's file storage, to hide unnecessary photos and information in the gallery, you can disable the display of media files saved in the messenger. You can do this in the following way:

1. Launch messenger.
2. Open the menu and call the "Settings" item.
3. Go to the "Chats" section.
4. Deactivate the display of photo and video files by unchecking "Show media files in the gallery".
5. Exit back to "Settings".
6. Go to the "Data and storage" section.
7. Click "Storage".
8. Select a chat to clean up.
9. Type in the "Manage Messages" button.
10. Use the checkboxes to select what you want to delete to clear the memory.
11. Activate the "Delete messages (size)" option.
12. Confirm the action.

Contacts on the home screen

To organize quick access to those with whom you communicate very often, you can move the contact to main screen smartphone as follows:

1. Launch messenger.
2. Activate the "Chats" tab.
3. Visually swipe and find the contact you want to arrange for fast access from the main screen.
4. Type on delay in chat with this contact.
5. In the menu that appears at the top, click on the icon with three vertical dots to open an additional menu.
6. Click to select the "Add a chat icon to the screen" option.
7. Select the placement option: manually or "Add automatically".

Turn off notifications

For ease of use, the application has a function to turn off notifications for one chat or several, so that the sound when a message arrives does not disturb you and does not put you in an uncomfortable position. You can start the option like this:

1. Open messenger.
2. Activate the "Chats" tab.
3. Delay click on chat to turn off notifications.
4. Click on the button with the crossed-out speaker icon.
5. Set the time period during which you do not want to receive notifications. The standard offers three options: 8 hours (working day), 7 days (working week) or a whole year.

Individual notifications

For important contacts and group chats, you can set up personalized notifications as follows:

1. Open messenger.
2. Click the Chats tab to navigate to and display all contacts and conversations.
3. Visually find the dialogue for which you want to create own system notifications.
4. Click on chat.
5. Type in the contact's name to open the profile.
6. In the window that appears, select "Individual notifications".
7. Activate the function with a checkmark next to the "Use" option.
8. The rest of the settings will become available immediately.
9. Customize "Chat Notifications" and "Call Notifications" as you wish.

Changing activity statuses

1. Open WhatsApp.
2. Go to "Settings" in the application menu.
3. Click on your profile.
4. In the "Details and phone number" section, the first item will be the activity status.
5. Select from the list:

• In touch.
• Busy.
• At school.
• To the cinema.
• At work.
• Low battery.
• I can not talk.
• At the meeting.
• In gym.
• I sleep.
• Only emergency calls.

5 hidden featuresiPhone

Sending your location

WhatsApp geolocation is one of the most useful options messenger, with which the user of the application has the opportunity to tell where he is.

But it should be borne in mind that forwarding your current location in accordance with geolocation is possible only if you give him access to these services in the device settings.

Step-by-step instructions for sending location information to WhatsApp for iPhone:

Now to send you need:

• Open WhatsApp messenger.
• Go to the "Chats" tab.
• Visually locate the desired dialogue.
• Go into it.
• At the bottom of the message text input window there is an icon with a gray paper clip or plus sign icon for attaching additional media elements and files.
• Select "Location" from the list.
• Click on the "Submit your location" button.

Deleting all chats

For mass cleaning of a smartphone or other personal purposes, the developers have added the functions of cleaning and deleting all chats at once. Because someone may have 5-10 active dialogs, while others have more than a hundred, and deleting them one by one is very difficult and time-consuming.

Step-by-step instructions for deleting all chats:

1. Go to messenger.
2. Select the "Settings" section.
3. Go to the "Chats" subsection.
4. Activate the function by pressing "Delete all chats".
5. Click on the "Delete all chats" button.
6. After that, all personal dialogues will be deleted. And group chats will still be displayed, and you will continue to participate.

To clear all chats, you need:

1. Log in to the app.
2. Call the "Settings" section.
3. Go to the "Chats" subsection.
4. Activate the function by pressing "Clear all chats".
5. Action confirmation required: enter number mobile phone profile.
6. Click the Clear All Chats button.

Save space on your phone (disable automatic saving of media files)

IN Lately comes to group and personal chats a large number of unnecessary images and videos that slow down performance and take up internal memory smartphone. Among the garbage of Internet pictures with cats and aphorisms, it becomes difficult to find valuable family and work photos.

For users mobile platform iPhone everything is implemented quite simply:

• Launch Whatsapp messenger.
• Swipe down, in the corner find and click on the gear icon that launches the “Settings” section.
• Open the "Chats" subsection.
• Switch "Save Media" to the off state.

Message statuses

To view the status of your friends whose mobile numbers saved in your address book on a smartphone, go to the "Status" tab: all the statuses of contacts are displayed there - you need to tap to open it.

To reply to the status you like, click to activate the "Reply" option at the bottom of the window. This feature is only available while browsing.

To add your status, you need:

1. Open the Status tab.
2. Choose from two options:

• The camera is for creating a story.
• Text - to create a normal status, there are less advanced settings: you can only change the color and font.

1. Click the "Submit" button.

To change your status privacy settings:

• Open the "Status" section.
• Select "Settings" at the top of the window.
• Limit or expand the list of people who can view your statuses in the future.

If the status needs to be changed, then it is not necessary to wait a day before the previous one disappears.

To remove a status:

• Open the "Status" section.
• Select "My Status".
• Swipe to left side by status for deletion.
• Click on the "Delete" option.

To delete multiple statuses:

• Open the Status tab.
• Type in "My Status".
• Click on "Change".
• Select the checkboxes to delete statuses.
• Click on the "Delete" button.

• Open the "Status" section.
• Type in "My Status".
• Click "Forward".
• Choose to whom.
• Confirm the action by clicking on the "Submit" button.

You can also send several statuses:

• Repeat the first two points from the previous instructions.
• Click Change.
• Select multiple statuses to send.
• Select contacts to send from recent chats or using the search bar.

Turn off notifications from a specific person (do not disturb)

So that no one bothers you during an important event and work, but at the same time you want to receive messages, the messenger function for the popular iPhone platform “No Notifications” will be extremely useful.

How to connect:

1. Open WhatsApp messenger.
2. Go to the "Chats" tab.
3. Visually find the desired group dialogue.
4. Swipe to the left to open the chat menu.
5. Click on the "More" item to open an additional part of the menu.
6. Activate the "No notifications" button.
7. Determine the time period in which you need rest and silent mode this chat. As for the Android platform, there are three periods for turning off sound alerts.
8. Leaving a specific group chat on home page, you can make sure that the option is activated: an icon with a crossed-out speaker will appear next to the name of the conversation.

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Almost everyone has WhatsApp installed on their smartphones. But do you think you are using its capabilities to the maximum? If you don't want your private to become public, or you want to become invisible to your contact list, as well as learn a lot of other tricks that many people don't even know about, all you need to do is just look into the settings.

website reveals 10 useful features this application that will make your life a little easier.

1. How to become invisible on WhatsApp

If you think that not everyone needs to know, when you are online, view your statuses, profile photo and details, use this trick:

• For Android: Open menu > Settings > Account > privacy and change your personal data visibility settings.
• For iOS: Go to Settings, by clicking on the gear in the lower right corner of the screen, open the section Confidentiality and change the settings.

2. How to make messages more expressive

3. How to send messages to a group of contacts without creating a group

The message will be sent to everyone you have marked on the mailing list. In this case, mailing recipients will receive given message as standard. Their responses will not be sent to other members of the mailing list they will only come to you.

4. How to understand that you have been blocked

There are several "symptoms" that indicate that you may have been blocked:

• You don't see the time last visit contact or "online" status in the chat window.
• You don't see updates to a contact's profile photo.
• All your messages are marked with one checkmark (message sent), but never with two checkmarks (message delivered).
• You create a group and cannot add the contact of the person you think has blocked you to it.

However, the listed signs do not give 100% certainty that you are in the banlist. Your friend could have simply changed the visibility settings.

5. How to save smartphone memory from autoloading media files

caring whatsapp saves all photos by default that come during the correspondence. Only now, this often clogs the memory a lot, and you don’t want to deny yourself the installation of new applications.

Solution: just turn off autosave photos in the app settings. For Android: open Settings> Data and select media download options.
For iOS: Settings > Data > Media.

6. How to understand that the interlocutor is not who he claims to be

Almost everyone can use "temporary number" or a special application for receiving an SMS activation code. To check if your friend has a real number, just call him. Temporary virtual numbers almost always inactive.

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Whatsapp is the most popular in the world mobile messenger writes OMG Voice.

Today it is used by more than a billion people around the world! Most likely, you are also one of them.

1. Whatsapp web client.

WhatsApp has an official web client, thanks to which you can chat with friends through a computer. This client has all the features of the mobile application built into it.

Unfortunately, as of today, the WhatsApp web client only officially supports Android, Windows phone and Blackberry 10. iPhone Users can use the web client only if they have a jailbreak.

2. Exchange of documents.

You can send documents (any up to 100 MB) directly to a WhatsApp chat with google drive and iCloud. To do this, click the "attach a document" icon and choose where to get the document from ( Google drive or iCloud).

3. Text formatting.

You can format text in WhatsApp messages by adding characters at the beginning and end of a word.

For a bold test, put asterisks before the word/phrase and after the word/phrase. Use an underscore for italics and a tilde (~) for strikethrough text.

Symbols can be combined with each other.

4. Find out who you talk to the most.

You can recognize the person with whom you correspond most often.

To do this (on iOS only), go to Settings > Account > Storage Usage. Here you will see a list of people and groups, WhatsApp messages, and the total number of interactions you have had with that person/group.

5. Keep track of your WhatsApp stats.

To see how many messages you've sent and received, how much data you've forwarded, and more, go to Settings > Network data usage. You can also reset the statistics there.

In addition, in the Data usage menu, you can limit the amount of WhatsApp data and allow the messenger to download images, audio, video and documents only if the phone is connected to Wi-Fi.

6. Turn off read receipts.

Once you receive a message, don't open it; turn on airplane mode, which blocks free wifi and mobile data, and only then read the message in full. Then close the app and turn off Airplane Mode.

The deed is done, the message is read, the interlocutor does not know about it!

7. Recovery of deleted messages.

There is a wonderful Recover Messages service that can easily recover all lost or deleted WhatsApp data. However, you will need to first copy the WhatsApp database to your computer.

1. To do this, simply connect your smartphone or tablet to your computer and copy the file "/sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases/msgstore.db.crypt" to your computer. This WhatsApp database storage path applies to all devices except iOS.

If you have an iPhone or iPad, then look for the database at "net.whatsapp.Whatsapp/Documents/ChatStorage.sqlite#sthash.lvFNd0N6.dpuf".

2. When finished copying, go to recovermessages.com website, click the button Select SQLite File and download the WhatsApp database file you copied to the PC earlier.

4. The speed of the process depends on the speed of your internet connection and the size of your WhatsApp database. Once the scan is complete, you will be prompted to recover the deleted data.

5. Recovered messages will be displayed on the site.

8. Whatsapp blocking.

Don't want your friends to read your correspondence? Special applications(under different operating systems) will block WhatsApp using a pin code.

By the way, these same applications can also block your Facebook.

9. Disable automatic saving of images in the photo album.

IN whatsapp for iOS, you need to open Settings > Chat settings and uncheck "Save. entrance. files". After that, WhatsApp will no longer save images sent to you in the photo library.

On Android you can use open access to file system and rename the WhatsApp Images folder. Connect your smartphone to your computer or use any file manager to find the desired folder.

IN file manager open sdcard > whatsapp > media. Find the folder called WhatsApp Images and rename it to .WhatsApp Images. A period added to a folder name will hide it so that it is no longer visible in the photo gallery.

10. Create GIFs.

Starting with version 2.16.16, WhatsApp for iOS provides the ability to exchange GIF images with your interlocutors.

Please note that WhatsApp GIFs on iPhone are limited to six seconds.

1. Open a chat with the user you want to send a GIF animation to.

2. Click on the camera icon.

3. Press and hold the large round button to record a video, or press the Library button on the left (in case you want to select finished video from the media library).

4. Edit the captured video by duration, and also use the tools in top menu to add text, emoji, or freehand drawings to your video.

5. Set the format switch to GIF and click the Submit button.

11. Image editing.

You can also draw on pictures or overlay text and emoticons on them. Go to the Media Library and select the image file you need. It will automatically open in the photo editor.

At the top right there is a menu of options: add text, emoticon or picture. Once added, the size and color of images can be changed.

12. Communicate in different languages.

If you would like to chat in another language, open WhatsApp, go to Settings > Select Chats and click on "Application Language". Now select your desired language.

13. Notifications about individual contacts.

If you want to be notified about the activity of specific contacts from the list, this is very easy to set up. Open the relevant contact, click on the top bar and select Notification Settings.

14. How to know that your message has been read.

To see if anyone has read your message, long press on the message, then select the info icon (i) at the top. You will know if it has been read.

Please note that this feature does not work if your contact has read receipts disabled.

Developers of one of the most popular messengers today they are not sitting idly by, but are improving the stability of their products and developing new features, some of which will become an integral part of communication. WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messengers. Let's take a closer look at the new features.

Sending a message from the notification center

Appearing a couple of years ago, the notification center has become an integral part of all mobile operating systems. It allows you to quickly access the most important functions. WhatsApp has recently expanded the capabilities of the notification center.

Lots of people use this feature. operating system to view the message. However, to answer I had to launch the application and open a chat window. Whatsapp allows you to reply to a message directly in the notification center itself, which significantly speeds up the process. To respond from the notification center itself, you should:

• Press the key Reply.
• Enter a message. It is possible to add a smiley.

Thus, you can reply to a message in just a few seconds.

The function will only work with latest update messenger and operating system. How comfortable it is, only time will tell.

Additional contact action menu

Others have enough important change you can call it that when you click on the profile picture, a menu appears additional features. Previously, this menu could only be opened by long-pressing the contact itself.

The new feature allows you to quickly edit your book, since in the drop-down menu it is possible to select several contacts or group chats, apply to all general action, label and so on.

This feature is not a major innovation, but it makes life much easier for those who use low-cost devices with touch screen, which, when the temperature drops or other conditions, does not respond well to long-term touches. After all, now the menu opens simply by clicking on a certain area.

In conclusion, we note that all the newest features can be found in the version of the messenger, which is undergoing beta testing. Similar versions can be found on developers. When installing it, it is worth remembering that there is a possibility unstable work messenger and the occurrence of errors, since the application is at the testing stage.

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Whatsapp has quickly grown from a small startup to one of the most popular apps messaging in the world, the number of users of which has exceeded one billion.

Many users use the messenger every day and are not even aware of the little tricks hidden in it.

Top 15 Whatsapp Hidden Features

Send messages to multiple people without them knowing

On the top left side of whatsapp, in the "chats" menu, there is a rarely used feature called "mailing lists". The feature allows you to send the same message to multiple contacts at the same time without creating a group chat.

Thus, we send each mailing list participant a private message.

Bold, italic, strikethrough

You can format text in whatsapp messages by adding characters before and after the word.

For a bold test, put asterisks before the word/phrase and after the word/phrase.

For italics, put underscore, and for strikethrough text put a tilde ~.

Symbols can be combined.

Get to know your frequent interlocutor

You can recognize the person with whom you correspond most often. To do this (iOS only) go to Settings -> Account-> memory usage. Here you will see a list of people and groups, whatsapp messages, and the total number of interactions you had with that person/group.

Reduce the amount of data used by whatsapp

To limit app background data, you need to go to Settings -> network data usage -> whatsapp

In the data usage menu, you can limit the amount whatsapp data and allow the messenger to download images, audio, video and documents only if your phone is connected to Wi-Fi.

Disable Notifications

if you have group chat, which constantly bothers with frequent notifications, you can turn off the notifications of this chat. To do this, go to the chat and click on the name of the group -> disable -> select the amount of time. You can also turn off notifications and private messages.

Control what data users can see

If you have ever been added to a group chat, then you know that each of them can go to your profile and see the information of interest to him, and he will also know when you were online.

To avoid this, you can go to settings-> account-> privacy and restrict access. So, only the users saved in your phone book will see information about you.

Submit Documents

You can now send documents directly to whatsapp chat from Google drive and iCloud.

To do this, click the “attach a document” icon -> choose where to get the document from (Google Drive and iCloud).

As soon as you receive a message, do not open it, turn on Airplane Mode, which blocks free Wi-Fi and mobile transmission data, open whatsapp to read the message in full. We read, close completely, exit the application, turn off the flight mode. The deed is done, the message is read, the interlocutor does not know about it.

Disable auto-save files to your smartphone

If the memory of your device is littered with files sent by your friends on whatsapp, then the problem with auto save very easy to solve. To do this, you need to go to settings -> chats -> disable saving incoming media.

Add dates to calendar

If you're sending a date or time in a message (only available on iOS), the date will be displayed in blue and underlined. By clicking on the hyperlink, you can create an event in the calendar. The function works if you write specific dates, such as Tuesday 17, and not just Tuesday.

Add a desktop shortcut for individual chats

For convenience in communication, you can add a chat shortcut to your desktop. To do this, click on the conversation you are interested in, hold, then in the drop-down menu, select Add Conversation Shortcut. An icon with a picture of a pen pal will appear on your desktop (only available on Android).

For iOS, you can enable the Quick Reply feature by downloading third party application.

Use whatsapp on computer

You can send and receive whatsapp messages on a computer through the online version of whatsapp or through the application for PC - Desktop.

To use the online version of the messenger, go to the link web.whatsapp.com , then go to the settings on your phone and turn on the whatsapp web client. Scan the QR code displayed on the monitor screen using your phone's camera. The online versions will only work if your phone remains turned on, connected to Wi-Fi, and is near a computer.

If you want the messenger to work on your computer all the time, you need to download a third-party application.

Send messages to yourself on WhatsApp

With the online version of whatsapp, you can easily exchange files between your phone and computer by sending them to yourself in messages.

The easiest way to send messages to yourself is to create a conversation with a friend, then remove that friend from the conversation. Then connect the phone to the computer using the QR code online whatsapp versions and send the file from your phone, so it appears in the conversation and on your computer.

Message privacy

To protect messages from prying eyes, go to settings -> notifications -> disable preview.

You can also put a whatsapp password through a third party app like applock for android.

Send a giant heart

If you send a red heart emoji to a friend, it will appear as a giant beating heart.