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Today it is almost impossible to imagine your life without applications designed for messaging.
Whatsapp is one of the most popular applications, which helps to stay in touch with friends and acquaintances.
There are many features in this application that users are not even aware of, but which can greatly improve their text communication skills.
1. Become invisible on Whatsapp .
To remove evidence that you have read messages, go to Settings - Account - Privacy - Read receipts and uncheck. However, if you turn this option off all the time, it can become suspicious.
Before opening a questionable chat, you can also turn on airplane mode. Now you can read messages without getting notifications. Exit messages before turning off airplane mode and the message will remain unread for the sender.
2.Hide visiting time in WhatsApp.
If you want to avoid an awkward conversation and don't want others to see when you last visited a chat, this can be easily done.
Go to Settings - Account - Privacy - Visit time, and choose who can see when you were last active.
3. Restore deleted correspondence in whatsapp.
If you accidentally deleted messages, don't worry, because there is a way to restore the conversation. However, you need to anticipate the situation.
To do this, you need to set up a backup of your chats. Go to . You can then choose to back up daily, weekly, or monthly. Whatsapp will only copy your chats when the phone is on.
If you accidentally deleted a message or chats, you can restore them by reinstalling this app.
4. Quote the post in whatsapp as proof.
Instead of scrolling through hundreds of messages and taking a screenshot to prove that your friend promised to come 2 hours ago, use the quote feature.
To do this, you need to select the desired message by holding it and pressing on arrow on the left(on Android) or the " Reply" on iPhone to quote the desired message.
5. Make text bold, italic or strikethrough in Whatsapp.
WhatsApp is very handy for a lot of things, but like all text messages, it doesn't convey intonation well. You can use bold, italics, and even strikethrough for these purposes.
If you want to put emphasis on a certain word, you need to use certain keyboard shortcuts.
To make it bold, you need to put an asterisk on both sides of the word, *like this*, use underscore for italics _the words_, and for strikethrough a wavy hyphen ~like this~. Also you can combine *_bold italics_*.
6. Turn off notifications in Whatsapp chats.
For example, you want to know what time the meeting is tomorrow. But this simple question turned into a three-hour conversation between the rest of the chat participants.
You can now avoid annoying notifications by selecting the name of the chat at the top and selecting silent mode. Click on the button Do not disturb in the top right corner and uncheck the option Show notifications.
7. Turn off saving photos whatsappin your gallery.
All files you receive are automatically saved to your phone's gallery. If your friends are sending photos that you don't want others to see, there is a way to avoid this. For iPhone go to Settings - Chats and disable the option Save media.
For Android, you must have a file manager installed, which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. After downloading go to whatsapp/media/whatsapp Images and create a file called .nomedia.
8. Save smartphone memory from unnecessary files in whatsapp.
When someone sends you pictures, gifs, audio and video files, they are downloaded automatically. To prevent them from clogging your smartphone's internal memory, set it to download only the types of files you need when you're connected to Wi-Fi or a mobile network.
For iOS Go to Settings - Data, where you can choose the download method. For Android, go to to find them.
9.Create a shortcut for a specific contact in whatsapp.
If you find it difficult to always look for your best friend in the general mass of WhatsApp chats, you can give preference to certain people (if you have Android). You can shorten your search time by saving shortcuts to your favorite WhatsApp contacts on your phone screen.
Click on the desired chat and in the menu (ellipsis in the upper right corner) and select " Add Label", and a shortcut with the contact will appear on your phone screen.
10. Mute sounds in whatsapp andhide chat from prying eyes .
There are times when you don't want someone to see your WhatsApp messages.
11. Send private messages to many users in whatsapp .
If you want to send one message to a whole range of people, you don't have to create a group chat where everyone can chat with each other. In this case, it is better to choose the mailing list.
Click on the menu button in the top right corner and select New newsletter. This will allow you to send one message to many people, creating an individual chat with each.
12. Transfer your messages whatsappto another phone .
If you don't want to lose your messages when you get a new phone, for example, you can back up your messages.
Go to Settings - Chats - Chat Backup and save a copy of messages daily, weekly or monthly. When you sign in to WhatsApp on your new phone, the messages will move to your new device.
13. Easily find important messages in whatsapp.
Many people know the feeling when you have to flip through several hundred messages to find a message about the right address or meeting time. But there is an easier way to do this.
Hold the desired message and click on the icon stars.
You can now view all flagged messages in the menu where you will find the option Featured Posts.
14. Find out when your message was read (ticks in whatsapp).
Hold on the message you sent and tap on the " info". You will see a window where you will see who read and who received the message with the specified time when it happened.
15. Stay private in Whatsapp group chat.
If you don't want friends of friends you've never seen but are in a group chat with to see your personal information, you can make the necessary changes.
You can restrict access to your profile photo and personal status by going to Settings - Account - Privacy, and choosing the options you want.
16. Mark unread chat in Whatsapp.
Let's say you can't reply to a message right now, but you don't want to risk your friendship with the person. You can set a visual reminder that you have messages to reply to.
This can be done in the chat list, highlighting a chat and marking it as unread.
17. Send a voice message to Whatsapp.
Instead of dictating a message, you can use Siri (for iPhone) to control WhatsApp without having to pick up your phone. To do this, you must have the latest version of WhatsApp installed, where you can say: " Hey Siri. send whatsapp to mom".
You can also read messages using Siri by saying: " Hey Siri. Read latest whatsapp messages" and you will hear the latest unread messages.
For Android users use OK Google by asking " send whatsapp to (name)".
18. Make a video call in whatsapp .
To make a video call, open a contact and click the video icon.
19. Draw on photos or add emoticons whatsapp.
Take a photo in the app and then use the various tools at the top of the screen to draw on the photo, add emoticons or text.
20. Turn videos into gifs in Whatsapp.
WhatsApp already has a large gallery of GIFs that you can send to friends and family in messages. If you don't find the GIF you need, you can convert your own videos to GIF format. Click on the photo and video gallery icon, select a video and press the GIF button in the upper right corner.
Back in early 2016, the messenger audience whatsapp, owned by Facebook today, exceeded billion. And in Russia, the social service remains one of the most popular means of correspondence, sharing the first or second place with Viber.
It’s a pity, personal observations show that most users do not even know the banal methods of using the service’s mobile application. Correcting the situation.
1. Highlight important information with formatting
If you need to highlight important information in a conversation in bold, italics, or strikethrough, enclose it in asterisks (* fatty*), underscores (_ italics _) or waves (˜ crossed out ˜) respectively.
2. Favorite the most helpful posts
After a long press on an important message, tap on the star icon. And you will find all the information marked so in the list of favorites in the settings of the mobile application.
By the way, reply to a specific message in the same way, copy, delete or forward it to another user.
3. Send messages without an internet connection
In the latest versions of the program, developers have allowed users to queue messages for sending without the Internet. They will automatically be sent to the recipient after connecting to the network.
Note! To ensure that messages are sent accurately, go to the application after connecting to the Internet. If the smartphone unloads it from memory in background use, the recipient will not receive the information.
4. Get information about sending or reading
To get information about sending or reading a message, swipe it across the screen from right to left. This will open the menu with the exact time of the first and second question.
5. Turn off notifications of annoying interlocutors
If you don’t have the strength to receive notifications from a boring interlocutor or their group, turn them off in the recipient’s menu, which will open on them at the top of the screen. Select an item here "Do not disturb" and time for silence.
6. Silence some spam chat notifications
When you communicate via WhatsApp with a whole group of interlocutors, it makes sense to turn off the sound of notifications. To do this, in the destination menu, change it to unselected.
For example, with the help of this life hack, I turned off the sound of notifications for the chat of the owners of apartments in my house, who spam on the case and not.
7. Don't save photos and videos to the default gallery
To avoid cluttering your device's personal gallery with images and videos, turn off auto-saving of this content in the chats menu of the app's settings.
8. Share your exact location with family and friends
If you can't find each other in a big city or an unknown area, send a message with your location. In this case, the application will offer a choice of establishments near which you are.
9. Export work correspondence for processing
To do this, go to the recipient's menu and select the appropriate item below. When the program generates a file with a history, it will offer to send it to e-mail or in another way for further processing.
By the way, it is saved to a text file with the date and time of each message displayed and packed into an archive.
10. Check your mobile internet statistics
This can be done in the statistics menu, which is located in the data and storage section of the application settings. In addition to the amount of traffic, there is the number of sent-received messages and so on.
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WhatsApp is the world's most popular 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 only use the web client if they have a jailbreak.
2. Exchange of documents.
You can send documents (any up to 100 MB) directly to a WhatsApp chat from 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 > Memory 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 Wi-Fi 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 Select SQLite File button and download the WhatsApp database file you copied to 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 (for 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 the WhatsApp app for iOS, you need to open Settings > Chat settings and uncheck "Save. input. files". After that, WhatsApp will no longer save images sent to you in the photo library.
On Android, you can take advantage of open access to the 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 the 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 big round button to record a video, or press the Library button on the left (in case you want to select a ready-made video from the Library).
4. Edit the video footage by duration, and use the tools in the top menu to add text, emoticons or freehand drawings to the 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.
WhatsApp is the most popular mobile messenger in the world. Today it is used by more than 800 million people. MacDigger offers 20 of the most useful tips and tricks for using WhatsApp on iPhone and Android.
Data backup and recovery
Both iOS and Android versions of the app have built-in backup and restore of message history and other important data. On the iPhone, iCloud is used for this.
SIM card for whatsapp
Whatsapp notifications on desktop
A special plugin for the Chrome browser called WAToolkkit will allow you to receive notifications from the WhatsApp web client right on your desktop. Notifications will come even when the browser is closed.
Quick Replies on iPhone
The Quick Reply feature in iOS 8 is reserved for Apple's standard Messages app, but users have found a way to make it work with WhatsApp. This requires jailbreak and .
Block WhatsApp on Android
Don't want your friends to read your correspondence? An Android app called "Messenger and Chat Lock" will lock WhatsApp with a pin code. By the way, the same application can also block your Facebook, just in case. You can download the application.
Favorite Contacts Widget on iPhone
Want to add WhatsApp contact links to iOS Notification Center? You can do this with "". Android users can simply tap and hold anywhere on the conversation box, then select Add Conversation Link. This way you will add a direct link to your favorite WhatsApp contact directly on your home screen.
Sync photos of WhatsApp contacts with your phone book
iOS users can use AvatarSync to sync WhatsApp profile photos with iPhone phone book. If you're an Android user, there are plenty of apps on Google Play that can do the job. Among them, it is worth noting Sync.me and Contact Photo Sync.
whatsapp on tablets
This is probably one of the most popular search terms on the internet. In fact, there is a way to make WhatsApp work on iPad and iPod touch without jailbreak. you can see how it's done.
As for owners of non-3G Android tablets, you will have to find and download the WhatsApp executable yourself, as Google Play won't show it in search results. After downloading, allow the download of third-party applications in the settings (Settings - Security) by tapping on the checkbox opposite the Unknown sources line. Now just install whatsapp app on your tablet. After installation, run the application; it will ask you to enter a phone number, which will receive an SMS with a verification code - enter the number to which you have access. After you receive the verification code, enter it on the tablet and Whatsapp will start.
Turn off read receipts
WhatsApp surprised everyone when it introduced a new feature for iOS and Android - a message read report. Users quickly found the opportunity.
Disabling the status “Was online…”
WhatsApp by default shows when the user was last online. Fortunately for many, not so long ago, the ability to disable such a signature was added to applications for iOS and Android. To do this, you need to launch the WhatsApp application, go to settings, then Account - Privacy - Last. In the list that opens, select "No one".
Android users should launch WhatsApp, press the Menu button, then Settings - Profile - Privacy - Last time. In the list that opens, select "No one".
Whatsapp customization
There are many third-party developments that allow you to customize WhatsApp for yourself. The most popular -- . This app can only be downloaded from Cydia.
The use of WhatsApp+ for Android has unfortunately been banned by WhatsApp itself. Googlephone users can only change the background image using the appropriate settings item in the official application.
Whatsapp number change
Want to change your phone number and not lose your message history and other WhatsApp data? Simply insert a new SIM card into your phone and follow the instructions below.
iPhone: Launch WhatsApp, open Settings, then Profile - Change number. Here you need to enter your old phone number in the first field, and the new number in the second field. After that, click "Finish".
Android: Launch WhatsApp, press the Menu button and enter Settings. Then select Profile - Change number. Here you need to enter your old phone number in the first field, and the new number in the second field. After that, click "Finish".
Disabling automatic saving of received images in a photo album
In the WhatsApp app for iOS, you need to open Settings - Chat settings and uncheck the box "Save. input. files". After that, WhatsApp will no longer save images sent to you in the photo library.
On Android, you can take advantage of open access to the 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 the 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.
Running WhatsApp for Android on OS X, Windows
Sure, we have the WhatsApp web client, but who wouldn't want to be able to run the original smartphone app on their computer? Windows and OS X users can easily run WhatsApp on their system by simply installing the Google Chrome extension.
Read messages aloud on Android
On Android, a modification of Voice for WhatsApp is available, thanks to which the application can read aloud incoming messages. Also, the modification adds support for voice commands.
Send unlimited photos on iOS
WhatsApp, by default, limits the number of photos in one message to ten. It's annoying at times, especially when you need to quickly poison a lot of photos of someone. Fortunately, this can be fixed on the iPhone: just install the utility (you will need a jailbreak for this).
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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 of 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 this message as a standard one. 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 contact's last seen time 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 are almost always inactive.
