With having more than 200 million active users, WhatsApp is really one most amazing and effective cross platform messenger today. In addition to Live Chat, WhatsApp is coming with several mesmerizing features such as sharing multimedia files and other data with which this application is pulling a large number of Smartphone users. In fact, it has more users than Facebook and Twitter, according to a recent survey. Apart from doing some well-known and most sought-after tasks, there are some other tactics you can try in WhatsApp but you may not know.
Untold WhatsApp Tricks
1. Create Chat Shortcuts
If you are chatting with 2 or 3 people at the same time on WhatsApp like with your girlfriend, wife, and with others, it won’t be easy to manage all those chats. So to make it easy, you can create conversation shortcuts to your home screen so that you don’t need to open WhatsApp again and again to check who texted you. Follow these steps to know how to create chat shortcuts on WhatsApp.
Open WhatsApp > Chats Tab > Long Press On the Chat You Want On Home Screen > Select Add Chat Shortcut.
2. Library Images
We know that Sharing Feature of WhatsApp is a great tool. But sometimes it becomes a headache especially when you are the part of some group on which so many images and videos are sharing. Those media files got auto download in your library. Many people find it good. But people who have less data and doesn’t want auto-download those media files, they find it annoying. Because those images and videos can clog up your library and will take more space in your memory. So if you want to stop that, follow the steps below.
Open WhatsApp > Options > Settings > Data Usage. And there you can select media auto-download to your preferences like when using mobile data or when using WiFi or When Roaming.
3. Schedule Messages
Are you not good with the dates? Do you find it tough to remember things? For example, anniversary of your parents, birthday of your girlfriend. They might kill you if you forgot to wish them. But you can sort it out with WhatsApp.
All you need to do is download a 3rd Party app which will work only on rooted or jailbreak device. So first root your phone and then download these apps.
4. New Broadcast
This feature of WhatsApp works almost same as Blind Carbon Copy which is actually an email feature. That feature will allow you to send out the same message to so many people. To use the broadcast feature on WhatsApp, try the following Steps.
Open App > Options > New Broadcast > Choose the recipients > Create.
You can check it later that who got your message, who opened it and they can easily reply back to you individually and privately.
5. Supercharge Your Privacy
You know about the 2 blue ticks of WhatsApp. It is a boon to usefulness but definitely a blow to privacy. If you are the part of some massive group which is actually full of strangers and you don’t want to share your personal info with them like seeing your face, your Last seen and Status. Just hide them with the steps below.
Go to the Options in WhatsApp > Settings > Open Account > Privacy and there you can select your personal info according to your preferences.
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