WhatsApp useful tips

WhatsApp has been releasing important features with different updates from read receipts, some local language supports to bookmarking (starred) important messages.

We have gone through different features of app and would try to gather up its most useful features and turn this app a messaging pro for you.

• Read time: Go to any of your WhatsApp single/group chats, tap and hold on any of the messages you’ve sent in the chat, followed by the Info option. For iOS users, you can drag towards the left to reveal a window which will show the time your message was delivered and read.

• Privacy: If you’re always getting added to new group chats filled with strangers, you might want to keep certain details private until those strangers become friends.

  

Go to Settings -> Privacy -> and then modify your Last Seen, Profile Photo and Status to maintain bit of mystery. Choose to share them with everyone, or only your Contacts, or Nobody at all. Nothing can be done about hiding your phone number.

• Mute Chat: Since WhatsApp allows group conversations of up to 50 participants, sometimes you get up and see 100+ unread messages that too with continuous annoying notifications:

Tap on the group chat of your choice, then the name to bring up Group Info where you will find the option to Mute the chat for eight hours to one week or a year.

• Conversation Shortcut on Home: There are people in your life with whom you chat to more often, it might be a good idea to create a shortcut for them directly on your home screen, so you don’t have to keep opening and closing WhatsApp.
  Tap and hold on the chat (group or individual) of your choice and a tab will pop up. Select the Add Conversation Shortcut option and the chat in question will appear as the person's profile photo on your mobile desktop. Unfortunately this only applies for Android users and not iPhone ones.
• Broadcasting message to everyone: In case you have an announcement to make, instead of posting it to facebook its better to Broadcast using Whatsapp, Your recipients will get the message as if it was a privately composed one, oblivious to the fact that you’ve sent the exact same invite to many people. On the top-left-hand corner of your WhatsApp Chats window, just below the search bar, you’ll notice a Broadcast Lists. Tap on it for the option to create a new list of contacts you want your message to go out to, and message away like you would normally.

• Customize Group Chat Tones: Group chats are created equal but their priorities differ in terms of interactions.

Go to the significant group chats, tap on the name to bring up Group Info and then Custom Notifications. There, you can select a custom message alert for the group chats of your choice. All you have to do now is remember which alert tone you assigned to which group chat. This customization is only applicable for group chats though.

• Whatsapp messages backup: iPhone users get the option of backing their chat history to iCloud automatically on a daily/weekly/monthly schedule. If it’s only selected chat histories you desire, click on the chat you want, then the user’s name and finally email conversation to yourself.Android users can go to 'Settings', 'Chats and calls', and select the 'Chat backup' option, which will let you setup an automatic Google Drive backup. The next time you install WhatsApp from fresh on any device, you can simply select the Google Drive backup option at the setup screen, to have all your up-to-date messages injected into your device, straight from the cloud.