Thanks to the abundance of useful functions of WhatsApp, the number of its fans is rapidly increasing every day. Many users are not even aware of the existence of additional features in the program that simplify communication with the interlocutor. Next we’ll tell you about 20 secret tricks that few people know about.

Whatsapp secrets: tricks, features of the WhatsApp program

We bring to your attention the TOP 20 secret functions of the messenger:

Hide your app activity from other users

Messenger users are given the opportunity to enable the “Invisible” mode. If you do not want your friends to see information about your last visit to the messenger, then use the privacy settings. Follow these steps:

1. In your profile settings, click the “Account” tab, then “Privacy”.
2. Select which users will have access to information about their profile status, avatar and visit time.

Forwarding chats to email

In order to preserve your valuable chat, send a copy of it to your email inbox.

1. Go to the desired chat.
2. Click the button in the form of three vertical dots. From the context menu, select the “Send by mail” tab.
3. In the new window, enter the shipping address.

Protect your WhatsApp from intruders

To create a password for the messenger, you will need to install a third-party utility. There are many auxiliary applications on the software market that are simultaneously adapted for Android and iOS devices. A special place among them belongs to Chat Lock. You can install the program from Google Play - for Android, App Store - for IPhone.

View information about the amount of memory used

A huge flow of text messages and multimedia files can clog the memory of the device you are using. To find out how much memory WhatsApp has consumed, follow these steps:

1. Go to “Settings” of the messenger.
2. Then go to the “Account” and “Storage” sections.
3. Click "Volume".
4. The “Total capacity” item displays general information about the memory used, including the application itself.

Format your messages

When sending messages, three types of text formatting are available: bold, italic, and strikethrough. To apply them to specific words in the text, you need to highlight them. The symbols for italics are “_”, for bold – “*” and for strikethrough – “~”.

Use the messenger functionality via PC

Since the official version of WhatsApp for PC has not yet been developed, you can use the browser version of the messenger as an alternative. Go to web.whatsapp.com. A window with a graphic code will open on the main page of the messenger. Launch the WhatsApp mobile application on your smartphone. In the menu, click the “WhatsApp web” section. Point the activated phone camera at the PC monitor screen with the QR code image.

Recover deleted WhatsApp correspondence

In order to save correspondence in chats, you will need to set up backup. For this:

• Go to the “Settings” of the application.
• Then go to the “Chats” and “Chat Backup” sections.

Check the box next to the more appropriate option “Daily”, “Weekly” or “Monthly”. The system can save correspondence only when the smartphone is turned on. You can recover a lost message or correspondence after installing the program again.

Use the quote option

Instead of screenshotting and copying the text of messages, you can use quoting. For Android smartphones:

• Select the message you want to reply to.
• Click on it and hold your finger for two seconds.
• Then tap on the arrow located on the left of the interface.

You can read other people's correspondence

To do this, you will need the smartphone of the person whose correspondence you plan to read. Launch the web version of WhatsApp on your personal computer. Then open the application on your smartphone. In the messenger menu, click “WhatsApp web”. To enter your profile, you need to scan a QR code.

Check if you are being followed

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Launch WhatsApp on your smartphone.
2. Click on whatsapp web menu.
3. A window will open with information about devices used by the application without your knowledge. If you have such a device, go to the Google Maps application to determine the location of the scammer.

Turn off notifications in chats

If endless discussions in group chats bother you, turn off the notification sound in the messenger. To do this, go to the desired chat, click on the “Do not disturb” button located at the top of the dialog box. Uncheck the box next to “Show notifications.”

Disable the option to save media files

Photos, gifs, pictures, audio and video files that you receive are automatically saved on your phone. To disable this option on an Android device you will need:

• Install a file manager from the Play Market (if it has not been installed previously).
• Go to the messenger, then to the “Media” and “Whatsapp images” sections.
• Create a “.nomedia” file.

Find out when your text message was delivered to your interlocutor

If the user needs to find out this information, he will need to select the sent message and press I, this letter is located above the text.

Add an important contact to your home screen

This option is supported only by Android smartphones. In the application menu, click “Contacts”. Select the required user from the list. Go to the chat, then tap on the icon in the form of three dots located vertically. Select “Create Shortcut”.

From your contact list, select a specific user. Click on his name to go to the chat. In the chat “Settings”, select the “Media” section.

It is possible to change the number

If the phone number linked to your WhatsApp account is no longer valid, then in order to link a new one, go to the application settings. Find the “Change number” tab. Here you will need to enter the details of the old and then the new number. The latter will receive a secret code, which you will need to enter in the appropriate line.

Permanent account deletion

To delete a profile and all its data, in the privacy settings, click “Delete account”.

Traffic savings

To download multimedia files automatically, select the “Data” section of the program menu, then check the box next to the appropriate method. It is recommended to choose wi-fi.

Blocking messenger users

If you want to get rid of annoying WhatsApp users forever, block access to your profile. Go to the chat with this user, in the settings, click the “Block contact” button.

Installation of one WhatsApp on two phones

Connect root rights on your smartphone and install the auxiliary utility – Titanium Backup. You can download the program for free from the official source - Play Market. Read detailed instructions for installing and configuring the program on our website.

whatsapp Sep 24, 2017 17:44

Messengers are a popular means of communication among smartphone and tablet owners around the world. The article is devoted to what WhatsApp is and how to use it. Let's consider each of the points in order, starting from the features of this application and the installation procedure and ending with its configuration.

Description of the WhatsApp messenger

Many are surprised by such a memorable name for the messenger, vaguely similar to something, and try to figure out what “Whatsapp” means. The phrase itself is consonant with the expression what’s up? (in translation - how are you), but at the same time it is written differently, with an emphasis on its “mobile” purpose. But the name is not all that the application can offer its users.

The messenger allows people to communicate at a distance, and absolutely free of charge (Internet traffic, if connected via a mobile network, is paid according to the tariff, no extra charges). It is possible to conduct correspondence, send voice messages, multimedia information, as well as calls, including video calls. Chat messages can be decorated with emoticons, geolocation or audio explanation.

Developers place great emphasis on the security of their application. It involves end-to-end encryption. This is a method of protecting data (in this case, any information sent or received), in which only the sender and recipient can view the message. Interception during transmission makes no sense, since everything is encrypted.

Installing the application

Everything is clear with the features of the messenger and what WhatsApp is, now let’s move on to installing it. And this is no different from the installation procedure for other applications. Just go to the App Store or Play Market, type WhatsApp in the search and download the desired item.

If there is not enough space on the device, a corresponding error will appear. In this case, delete unnecessary data and try again.

Registration

Registration in the application is extremely simple. You just need to enter your phone number and wait for an SMS with a PIN code to arrive. Users of the latest versions of Android smartphones and tablets can enable the function of intercepting message information (a notification about this will come automatically, if such a feature is provided by the system). Then you will not need to enter the secret combination; it will be automatically copied into the appropriate field.

Settings

When the application is installed on the device and an account has been registered, you can proceed to using the messenger. You can improve the convenience of this process by customizing it.

Go to the settings menu from any application screen. The first setup item for most users is notifications. Open the appropriate tab and set the notification options according to your preferences. You can also turn off sounds directly from a specific dialogue or group, leaving the rest unchanged.

Then you should enable backup. It is valid for both iPhone and Android. But in the first case, the data is uploaded to iCloud, in the second - to Google Drive. To configure, go to “Chat – Backup...”.

Owners of limited Internet will be interested in the possibility of compressing traffic, as well as changing network parameters. The “Data” section is responsible for these items.

You can increase the security of correspondence and personal information by enabling two-step verification. It is called up in the “Account” section.

Usage

It doesn't take long to figure out how to use WhatsApp. The messenger interface is intuitive. There are a minimal number of controls, only three functional tabs: Chats, Status and Calls. In the first, you can view all message histories that have not been deleted or archived.

The second is for short notes. The statuses of added contacts are displayed there, and you can also change yours from there. The “Calls” tab is for making calls. The application, as already mentioned, supports voice and video communication.

All screens display a button for searching content and calling up menus. Understanding the use of WhatsApp is very simple. It is enough to make a few calls or participate in correspondence, then the location of all elements will become obvious.

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21.09.2017 17:10

You will be the coolest.

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 one of them too.

1. WhatsApp web client.

WhatsApp has an official web client that allows you to communicate with friends via your computer. This client has all the functions of the mobile application built into it.

Unfortunately, the WhatsApp web client currently only officially supports Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry 10. iPhone users can only use the web client if they are jailbroken.

2. Exchange of documents.

You can send documents (any up to 100 MB) directly to WhatsApp chat from Google drive and iCloud. To do this, click the “attach document” icon and select 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 the word.

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

Symbols can be combined with each other.

4. Find out who you talk to most.

You can recognize the person you correspond with most often.

To do this (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. Monitor your WhatsApp stats.

To find out how many messages you've sent and received, how much data you've transferred, etc., go to Settings > Network data usage. There you can also reset the statistics.

Additionally, in the Data Usage menu, you can limit WhatsApp's data usage and allow the messenger to only download images, audio, videos, and documents when your phone is connected to Wi-Fi.

6. Disable read receipts.

Once you receive a message, do not open it; Turn on airplane mode, which blocks free Wi-Fi and mobile data, and only then read the entire message. Then close the app and turn off airplane mode.

The job is done, the message is read, the interlocutor doesn’t know about it!

7. Recovering deleted messages.

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

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. Once you are done copying, go to recovermessages.com website, click on the Select SQLite File button and download the WhatsApp database file that you copied to your 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 completed, you will be prompted to recover your deleted data.

5. Recovered messages will be displayed on the website.

8. Block WhatsApp.

Don't want your friends to read your messages? Special applications (for different OSes) will block WhatsApp using a PIN code.

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

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

In the WhatsApp app for iOS, you need to go to Settings > Chat Settings and uncheck the “Save. entrance. files." After this, WhatsApp will no longer save images sent to you in the photo library.

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

In your file manager, open sdcard > WhatsApp > Media. Find the folder called WhatsApp Images and rename it to .WhatsApp Images. A dot added to the folder name will hide it so that it will no longer be visible in the photo gallery.

10. Create GIFs.

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

Please note that the duration of GIFs used in WhatsApp on iPhone is limited to six seconds.

1. Open a chat with the person 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 click the “Media Library” button on the left (if you need to select a finished video from the Media Library).

4. Edit the footage by length, and also use the tools in the top menu to add text, emoticons, or hand-drawn drawings to the video.

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

11. Image editing.

You can also draw on pictures or put 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 drawing. Once added, the size and color of the images can be changed.

12. Communicate in different languages.

If you want to chat in another language, open WhatsApp, go to Settings > Select chats and click “Application language”. Now select your desired language.

13. Notifications about individual contacts.

If you want to receive activity notifications from specific contacts on your list, it's very easy to set up. Open the corresponding contact, click on the top bar and select “Notification settings”.

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

To find out if someone has read your message, long press on the message, then select the information 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 turned off.

Each messenger has certain secrets of use. Perhaps the manufacturers did not plan to make any functions hidden, but some of them are not known to every WhatsApp user.

Ability to format text

The characters needed to change the font in WhatsApp will not appear after sending a message.

If you want to emphasize the importance of certain words or entire sentences, you need to add a certain symbol at the beginning and end of the word or phrase. For example, to make it bold, do so - *word*, and the following symbols _word_ will help you turn printed letters into italics. A sentence can also be crossed out, for this use a ~word~.

Disable automatic media downloads

The auto-download feature in WhatsApp is turned on in the same way as it is turned off.

When you first download WhatsApp, it is already configured to automatically download files. This means that all pictures and videos that are sent to you are immediately saved in the phone’s memory. But, as a rule, then you have to manually clean the folders. However, this autosave can be prevented by using one hidden feature of WhatsApp. Open Settings, then Chats, and change the status to Save Media.

Sending messages

WhatsApp's messaging feature is convenient for distributing advertisements.

It is believed that in WhatsApp you can either send a message to one user at a time, or create a conference and then everyone will see your message. However, users of the application also have access to newsletters, in which your friends will not know that others have received the same message.

To do this, open “Settings”, go to “Chats”, then click on “Menu” and select “New newsletter”.

Sending correspondence from WhatsApp to email

You can also export chat from WhatsApp to social networks

If you need to send correspondence by email, you just need to open the “Menu” and go to the special “Chat Export” section. Then select “Send by email”.

Password protect your application

WhatsApp Lock app is free

Alas, for now this function is only available to owners of smartphones running on the Android platform. To put password protection on all WhatsApp chats, download the special WhatsApp Lock application. It takes up little space in the phone's memory.

Using WhatsApp on your computer

WhatsApp auto-save feature for incoming files does not work on computer

You can type messages much faster from your computer and view the received photos more conveniently. Therefore, you should install the corresponding application on your PC, then you need to scan the QR code that appears on the screen using your phone. Ready! Now you can reply to friends from both your smartphone and laptop.

Create an event

Using the calendar, you can create several events at once in WhatsApp

If you and a friend have agreed to meet, for example, you can immediately move this event to your calendar. To do this, press and hold on the message that talks about your upcoming walk. Then select “Create event”.

Turn off notifications for messages from certain people

After turning off notifications from a specific person in WhatsApp, messages will still arrive and you can always read them

We are not talking about a blacklist, but about a function that allows you to turn off the sound of notifications in specific chats. To use it, you need to open the desired conversation, then click on the name of the person or group and select “Do not disturb.”

By the way, in this case, WhatsApp offers several periods for which you can make chats silent and not display a notification: 8 hours, 1 week, 1 year.

Using WhatsApp becomes even more convenient with the use of all the listed functions. Especially if you install the application on your computer.