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This is Praveen for TechEmpty.
In this video I will be showing you the 15 WhatsApp Tricks you probably didn’t know
about.
These tricks are for both Android and Ios users.
So, without any further ado, let’s get started.
First one here in the list is pinning the chat conversation.
Gone are those days searching for the list of groups or conversations that you involve
frequently.
Instead, just pin the conversation to the top of the WhatsApp so that you can get in
touch with the people instantly.
To do this, long press the chat conversation and select the pin icon at the top.
This trick is only for Android users and iOS users may get this in coming days.
To unpin, repeat the same steps.
Second one for Android.
Add the shortcut Would to like to chat with the people that
you most concern about without opening the WhatsApp app?
Do this by creating a Shortcut.
Long press the Chat of your friend or family, select the options and here choose ‘Add
Shortcut’.
Now, you can interact with people by directly choosing the shortcut you just created from
the homescreen.
Cool!
Isn’t it?
Third one.
Hiding Last Seen, Profile Picture, About and Status
You can change the privacy settings of the WhatsApp to hide the last seen, profile picture,
about and the status messages.
To do that, you just need to go to WhatsApp then choose options then Settings then Account
then Privacy.
Here you will have the options to choose whether you want your last seen, profile picture,
about and status to be seen by “Everyone”, “Contacts” or “Nobody”.
If you are an iPhone user then move to settings then Account then Privacy and here choose
the appropriate option whether to show your last seen, profile picture, about and status
by “Everyone”, “Contacts” or “Nobody”.
Remember, if you don’t share your last seen, you won’t be able to see other people’s
last seen.
Fourth one.
Read receipts Do you know about those blue ticks?
That is called Read receipts.
When you read some message, the sender will get those blue ticks meaning that you have
read the message that they sent.
Ofcourse, it can create some relationship issues.
Well, WhatsApp understands that and there’s an option to turn it off.
To turn this off entirely, go to settings then Account then Privacy and come all the
way down and find ‘Read Receipts’.
Just toggle it to turn it off.
Now the sender won’t get any acknowledgment when you read the message.
Remember, if you turn off read receipts, you too will not be able to view anyone else’s
read receipts.
Fifth one.
Check When a Message was Read You can check when the sent message was read
by the receiver.
It’s simple, as all you need to do is press hold on a message and tap “Info“.
Once you do that, you will be able to see the time when your message was delivered and
read.
On an iPhone, just swipe to the left to check the status.
Sixth one.
Hide Chats Do you know that you can hide chats without
using any third party apps?
Let me tell you.
Just mark the chat conversation as ‘Archive’ and the whole contact will not be shown on
the WhatsApp homescreen.
If you are an Android user, long press on the chat and select this ‘Archive’ icon.
To unarchive, open the archived conversations and then again long press on the chat then
choose ‘Unarchive’.
And if you are an iPhone user, swipe the conversation to the left and find ‘Archive’.
Choose it to hide the chat conversation.
To unarchive, swipe down the WhatsApp window and choose ‘Archived Chats’.
Here select the conversation then swipe left to unarchive.
Seventh one.
Send GIFS Are you getting GIF messages from your friends?
Don’t you know how to send them?
No worries.
Here I’m.
You don’t have to search the internet for appropriate GIFs.
WhatsApp has its own collection.
If you are an Android user, then select this emoji icon then choose ‘GIF’.
Search the best and send it to your friends or family.
And if you are an iPhone user, choose the + icon and choose ‘Photo & Video library’.
Here chose ‘GIF’ at the bottom corner and send the best one.
Eight one.
Mute Groups and Notifications Groups on WhatsApp are a great way to message
a lot of people at once but they can get annoying sometimes.
Well, there are options to mute a group and you can also stop getting notifications.
To mute a group, long press on the chat and choose group info.
You can turn on mute for 8 hours, a week or even a year.
On Android, you also get an option to turn off “show notifications” while muting
a group.
However, on an iPhone, you can only mute a group chat.
Ninth one.
Star Messages Let’s say someone sent you a quotation and
you loved it.
After few months you need to get that quote again from the long conversation.
It’s really a tough thing to do.
Right?
This is where the star messages rescue you.
Just mark the quote as star message and you can check it anytime by moving to the profile
then ‘Starred messages’.
Tenth one.
Send a Message in Bulk On various occasions it’s a great hassle
to go on wishing the people individually, which makes WhatsApp’s broadcast feature
all the more useful.
WhatsApp’s broadcast feature lets you send messages in bulk without the recipients knowing
that it has been sent through WhatsApp broadcast.
On Android, choose the three dots and select ‘New Broadcast’.
Now pick the contacts of minimum 2 that you would like to broadcast a message.
On iPhone, find the ‘Broadcast Lists’ and create a ‘New List’.
Choose the recipients of minimum 2 and maximum of 256 to send a broadcast message.
Eleventh one.
Change Font Surprise your friends by sending the text
message with this cool new font.
Just add the three grave accent character at the start and end of the message.
If you are an iPhone user, find this grave accent character by holding the apostrophe
and if you are an Android user, find this character in the second page of symbols or
punctuation.
Twelfth one.
Text formatting.
Now you can format the text using some special characters.
This comes handy when you would like highlight something in the sentence.
Use * at the start and the end of the word to bold it, _ for italics and tilde for strikethrough.
Thirteenth one.
Tagging the person Now WhatsApp allows you to tag the members
within the group chat.
You can use this feature if you would like to say something by referring a person.
Just type @ symbol then choose the name from the list.
That’s it.
Fourteenth one.
Quote a WhatsApp message.
If you are actively involved in a conversation having number of people, it is often confusing
at times as to who someone is referring to in a group chat.
So, use this feature to embed the previous text in your reply.
To use, press and hold the message then choose ‘Reply’.
If you are using Android device, press and hold the message then choose the ‘Reply’
icon at the top.
Fifteenth one.
Hop into an Individual Chat from a Group Chat How many group chats are you in right now?
Plenty, we bet.
Given that you can have up to 256 participants in one group chat, there must be a bit of
overlap with your existing individual chats.
And sometimes there are things you want to say to someone that should never be mentioned
in a group, but it’s also a pain to go locate that individual chat.
There’s a simple way to start an individual chat quickly from a group one.
Long press on a message of the person that you would like to speak in private.
Choose ‘Message to the person name’ and you will be teleported right into that individual
chat without you having to scroll the list of chats.
In Android, tap and hold the message of the person and choose the three dots at the top
corner.
That’s it.
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