If you frequently use WhatsApp for professional or personal reasons and are looking for ways to enhance your chatting experience, here are some useful Whatsapp, Latest tips and tricks that you can benefit from.
1. Limit data used by WhatsApp
To restrict the data consumed by the app, this is what you need to do.
Go to settings>>Data and Storage usage.
From here you can decide what all media (Photos, videos, documents, audio) the app can download while eating your data.
2. Assign different priority and sound to different notifications.
WhatsApp has added support for ‘Notification Channels’, an Android Oreo feature that can be used to set priority for different types of notifications coming from the same app.
So, you can decide if you need group messages to pop up or not. You can also assign them a priority level to determine how often they make it to the notification panel. To avail this feature, you will need Android Oreo support. If you are running Android Oreo, just go to the app info page (you can also do this by long-pressing app notifications) and then select the manage notification option.
You can also assign a different sound to different types of notifications from here.
3. Pin conversation or make shortcuts
If you wish to keep a particular contact or conversation on top. You can simply long-press the conversation and select the Pin icon in the option's menu that appears on top. You can also press the triple dot menu and select create shortcut option to place the conservation shortcut on the main page.
4. Mark messages to answer later
If you have read a message but wish to answer it later, you can simply long-press the conversation head in the ‘Chat’ tab and select ‘mark as unread’ option.
This won’t erase ‘Blue ticks’ or read receipts but will mark the message with a bloated green dot that will serve as a reminder. You can later answer the text at your own volition.
5. Hide a WhatsApp chat
People whom you have recently talked to appear closer to the top in your WhatsApp chat list. If you don’t want a particular conversation to be conspicuous, you can hide it as “Archive”.
Just long-press the conversation and select the Archive button on the top. This particular chat will now disappear from the list. You can access it by scrolling all the way to the bottom.
6. Check exactly when a particular person read your Whatsapp message
Blue ticks notify you that your message has been read, but they don’t tell you when exactly your contact read the message. Here is how you can check the same:
Long press the particular message you wish to inquire about.
Now press the ‘i’ icon in the top bar and you will see when the person reads your message
7. Mark message and easily find them later
If you wish to mark and preserve interesting or important messages (Like address, phone numbers, reference numbers, important images, etc.) that you wish to refer to later, there is a way you can do that.
Just long-press a message and tap the star icon in the top menu.
You can retrieve stared messages by tapping the triple dot menu icon on the home screen
8. Format WhatsApp Messages: Change font, Bold, italics, strikethrough
You can also format fonts of your WhatsApp messages. To do so, just long-press the portion of text you wish to format after typing it in the message input field. Now you will get the option to change the format to bold, strikethrough, or italics. You can also ‘Monospaced’ option to change the font.
Change the phone number associated with your account.
You can manually format test as follows
*ABC* = ABC
_ABC_ = ABC
~ABC~ = ABC
9. Quote messages
To quote WhatsApp messages, just long-press a text message and select the backward arrow from the top menu. You can now enter your text here.
10. Transfer files between PC and Phone using WhatsApp
You can also transfer files between PC and mobile phones using Whatsapp.
First, send the file you wish to share with any contact
Now open the WhatsApp web on your PC.
From here, you can download media or other file types from the chat window to your PC. Or upload a file and then access it on your phone.
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