12 Features of WhatsApp you need to know: The popular messaging app WhatsApp has reached more than 2 billion users 12 years after its launch. According to WhatsApp, WhatsApp now exchanges 100 billion messages every month. Despite the recent privacy policy controversy, WhatsApp has been able to attract millions of users due to its many excellent features and intuitive user interface.
Due to the fear of WhatsApp sharing data with Facebook, some users in the world have recently left WhatsApp and moved to other messaging apps including Telegram. But WhatsApp, which has a huge user base, has yet to lose its number one status. One of the most important features of WhatsApp is end-to-end encryption.
Due to this technology, WhatsApp itself will not be able to see any of the user’s messages except the sender and the receiver. Apart from this, there are a 12 of WhatsApp’s most popular and must-know features:
- Who do you talk to the most?
Who is your best friend on WhatsApp? Who has more messages being exchanged, is it worth knowing? If so, there is a very simple rule for that. Go to the Settings option of your iPhone or Android phone, tap on the Storage Ball option and press the Manage Storage option. There appears a list of contact numbers that consume most of your phone’s storage. Then you can go into one of the contacts and see the number of messages exchanged pictures, and details of GIFs. WhatsApp’s new storage section allows you to find and remove large files that take up more space on the phone.
2. Messages can be sent without typing:
In fact, WhatsApp users can send text messages without typing. This is possible because of Siri and Google Assistant. Android users can use Google Assistant and iPhone users can send text messages based on what they say without typing. With the help of these digital assistants, you can also read the messages you have received on WhatsApp.
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3. Messages can be read without the sender knowing:
If someone sends you a message on WhatsApp and you start reading or listening to it, the sender gets the signal. That is, when the recipient sees the message, it shows two blue tick marks. But you can read and listen to the message you receive on WhatsApp without giving the sender such information. Do you know how to do this? For this, you need to enable the flight mode of the smartphone. Once the flight mode is activated on the smartphone, open WhatsApp and read by tapping on the message in it. After reading the message, make sure that WhatsApp is turned off on all Windows before turning off flight mode on the smartphone.
Otherwise, the app runs in the background and tells you what you read before you come online. If you take this precaution, you can see the message you received on WhatsApp without letting the sender know. Sometimes this method can be very helpful to heal those who are upset by sending annoying or unnecessary messages on WhatsApp.
In fact, the Blue Ticks / Last Seen feature, these two features are very popular features in WhatsApp. The message you sent on WhatsApp was not sent and everyone wants to know if the recipient saw it or not. Also, when you start using WhatsApp at any time, you may want to know when was the last time you came online to WhatsApp. So WhatsApp has these features. But if the user does not like the mentioned feature, it can be disabled. For that you have to complete Settings> Account> Privacy> Disable Read receipts or Last seen method.
4. The message is automatically deleted:
WhatsApp has recently introduced a feature where messages sent by users to WhatsApp can be automatically lost or deleted after a certain period of time. For this, the user has to send the Disappearing messages
The feature must be enabled. After doing this, the chats made by the user are automatically deleted after 7 days. For this, the user can choose which person to use this feature in chats and this feature only applies to certain users. To activate the Disappearing Messages feature, open WhatsApp and tap on the contact or chat name at the top of the screen, and tap on the Disappearing Messages option in the options. But what the user has to keep in mind is that even if this feature deletes the message in WhatsApp, the pictures sent and received in WhatsApp are automatically stored in the phone’s memory. So even if the photo message is deleted on WhatsApp, those photos are saved on the phone.
- Photos and videos can be prevented from being saved automatically:
If you don’t want photos and videos coming to your WhatsApp to be automatically saved directly in the phone’s memory and you can save them automatically, there is an option for that. In fact, when all the videos and photos that come and go on WhatsApp are automatically saved on the phone, not only the memory of the phone is exhausted, but also your other important photos and videos are lost. Therefore, the following measures should be taken to disable autosave.
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Open the Settings tab on the iPhone and then go to the Chats option and turn off the Save to Camera Roll option.
Open the Settings tab on the Android phone and turn off the Media Visibility option in the Chats option.
- Put a star on the message, so that it can be easily found later
Adding a star to a message received on WhatsApp makes it easier to find any important message, phone number, address, and article link in the future. To do this, open the chat you received on WhatsApp, long press on the message, and then tap on the star icon that appears.
Then a small star appears on the back of the message. You can easily find the starred message while scrolling the message you received later on WhatsApp. To easily find the starred message, the iPhone user has to go to the Settings tab of WhatsApp and press the Starred essay option, while the Android user has to go to the Menu button of WhatsApp and go to the Starred Message option.
- You can run WhatsApp on your computer:
However, WhatsApp has just launched a multi-device feature. Through which you can run your WhatsApp not only on a smartphone but also on four devices independently. However, this feature is not currently available to all users and has only been launched for testing in the beta version. So until this multi-device feature comes into common use, you can make full use of the existing feature that can run WhatsApp on the desktop as well.
Chatting on the small screen of a smartphone is awkward and if you don’t feel comfortable talking openly, you can have fun chatting on WhatsApp on your personal computer using the keyboard and mouse. For this, the personal computer and Mac app in the form of a Web version of WhatsApp will be useful. For this, you need to download the Windows or Mac operating system version of WhatsApp on your computer. If you can’t install the app on your computer, you can log in to WhatsApp web https://web.whatsapp.com/ http://web.whatsapp.com/ in your browser. Your phone to run WhatsApp on the computer
Must be connected to mobile data or WiFi. To run WhatsApp on a computer, complete the following steps:
Open Whatsapp on your phone.
Go to the Menu or Settings option and select What’s App Web then scan the QR code that appears on the screen inside the WhatsApp web or desktop app on the computer screen.
After the scan is complete, you can now view all the messages in your phone’s WhatsApp on the computer’s web and app, and you can use WhatsApp from your computer for fun.
- All chat details can be extracted:
This is also possible if you want to keep your chats safe by exporting chats in detail. For this, the Android user has to tap on the Menu button and go to the More option and go to Export Chat.
Similarly, go to the chat thread on the iPhone and tap on the contact name at the top of the screen and then scroll to the bottom of the Play page and tap on the Export Chat option.
In this way, when extracting the details of the chat, there is an option to extract it along with photos and videos or only extract the text message. So you can extract and save the details of WhatsApp chats as per your wish.
- Message sent can be canceled:
Did you send the wrong message to the wrong person on WhatsApp? You have no reason to worry. Because there is an option to cancel such an error message. To do this, tap on the message and press the delete option in the top bar. There you will see two options Delete for me / Delete for everyone. You can click on the second option. Doing so will also delete the message you sent by mistake from the recipient’s chatbox. But it is important to know that the message can be canceled within 7 minutes of sending. If it’s too late, you can’t delete it for everyone.
- WhatsApp can be secured using fingerprint lock:
You can set your WhatsApp fingerprint to unlock the feature. Doing so will not open WhatsApp without scanning the person’s laptop. To do this, go to Accounts within WhatsApp’s Settings, scroll down the Privacy, tap on the Fingerprint lock option, and set up by scanning your fingerprint as instructed.
- You can prevent certain people from seeing your story:
In fact, WhatsApp’s story feature is like a kind of personal platform to express your mood. So you may not want to show your stories to everyone on WhatsApp’s contact list. For that, you can deprive certain users of WhatsApp from seeing your status updates and stories. For that:
Go to WhatsApp settings >> Account >> Privacy
Select Status >> ‘My contacts except’
In that option, you have to select the contact number of the person you do not want to show the stories to and put a tick mark.
In addition, if you want to show your stories only to certain people and not to be seen by anyone else, you can choose the number or chat name of the people you want to show by going to the people show option.
- Deleted messages can also be read on WhatsApp:
Do you want to see deleted messages received by the sender? For this, you need to download an app called Notification History Log. And this app should be given access to read notifications. The app will keep the details of all the notifications on your phone safe and you can easily read the details of the messages received in those notifications. These are the best Features of WhatsApp.
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