10 helpful tips for every WhatsApp user

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

With their help, you will be able to use the messenger to the maximum.

WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messengers through which millions of people around the world communicate. At the same time, many users still do not know all the features of the service. And among the latter, by the way, there are very useful ones. Let's talk about these.

1. Set up the visibility of personal data

Go to the menu "Settings" → "Account" → "Privacy". Here you can customize the visibility of personal data: profile photo, status and information about the last visit. If you want this information to be hidden from everyone, just select "Nobody".

For iOS, identical settings are found in the "Privacy" item in the account settings.

2. Format messages

Not everyone still knows that text in messages can be bold, italicized or strikethrough. To do this, you need to put a certain symbol in front of the word and after it.

For bold type, an asterisk, for italics, an underscore, and for strikethrough text, a tilde. For example: * word *, _word_, ~ word ~.

3. Respond to a specific message

With active correspondence, the ability to respond to the desired message avoids confusion and misunderstandings. In WhatsApp, this feature is especially convenient.

You just need to swipe on the message in the chat from left to right, and it will be attached to your next message, indicating exactly what you answered exactly.

You can also just hold down the message and click on the arrow that appears in the top menu.

4. Add messages to favorites

Adding a message to your favorites will allow you to quickly return to it without using chat search. This is useful when you need to save some coordinates, a shopping list, a task, and so on.

To add, you just need to hold down any message in the correspondence and select the button with the star image. It will immediately be added to a special menu, which can be accessed on Android through the three dots in the upper right corner, and on iOS through WhatsApp settings.

5. Use messaging

Shared mailing is especially useful when you need to share something with a large number of users without grouping them into a group. The function is available in the menu by clicking the three dots in the upper right corner. The message will be sent to everyone you mark in your contact list. Their answers will only be visible to you.

6. Check when the message has been delivered and read

Not everyone knows that in WhatsApp you can find out the specific time when a person received a message and when he read it. To do this, hold down the desired message in the chat, click on the three dots in the upper right corner and select "Info". On iOS, after holding down, select "Data" from the menu.

This function is very useful when you cannot contact a person and do not even know if he received your message. Note, however, that this only works if the user has not disabled the "Read report" in the privacy settings.

7. Set up customized notifications

Unlike many other instant messengers, WhatsApp allows you to set up notifications for new messages and calls for each contact or group individually. This allows, for example, not only to turn off the sound signal for messages from a certain person, but also to select a particular melody for him.

With this option, you can find out who exactly wrote to you without even looking at the smartphone display. To configure, you need to open the contact or group menu and go to the "Individual notifications" item. There, by checking the box next to "Use", you need to edit the necessary items.

8. Disable automatic media downloading

Disabling this feature can be especially useful when roaming, as your mobile operator may charge you significant data download fees.

Go to Settings → Data and Storage → Auto Upload Media. You will find three options: Mobile, Wi-Fi and Roaming. In each of these items, uncheck the boxes next to "Images", "Audio" and "Video".

9. Change your mobile number without data loss

If you have a new SIM card, this does not mean that you need to create another WhatsApp account. Everything is much simpler. Go to "Settings" → "Account" → "Change number". Confirm your old number, enter a new one, and you're done.

This will quickly transfer all your groups, settings, and account information.

10. Protect WhatsApp with a password

Some things are not meant for prying eyes. In particular, your WhatsApp correspondence. And if you know that some of your friends or family members like to rummage through other people's messages, then the best solution is to password protect WhatsApp. For example, through the ChatLock application.