Nowadays your entire social life happens through WhatsApp, everyone has it and everyone uses it all the time, but very few know these ten WhatsApp tricks with which you are going to surprise your friends.
But not only that, in addition to improving the visual appearance of your chats and sending much more striking messages, you can use WhatsApp in a much more beneficial way for you and your mental health. Among our list of WhatsApp tricks we have not included how to mute chats or groups because that already another article.
Technical WhatsApp tricks
We are going to start this list with the most useful WhatsApp tricks, and we will leave the most aesthetic ones for last. Become a connoisseur of all the available WhatsApp options and get the most out of this application.
1. Mark chats as unread
Just like with email, In WhatsApp you have the option to mark a chat as unread, even if you have already actually read it. This is super useful when you’ve skimmed the conversations but you don’t have time at that moment to answer and you don’t want it to be forgotten later.
Many times we forget to respond to someone because, when reading the chat, The little dot that notifies us that someone has written to us disappears. But, if you leave the conversation marked as unread, that dot will appear again. Thus, every time you enter WhatsApp you will see that you have an “unread” conversation or, in this case, without answering.
Useful, don’t you think? This is how it is done depending on your device:
- If you have a Android, go to your chat list and, without entering the conversation, click on it for a few seconds. Now in the three points that have appeared at the top right, click on the option to mark as unread.
- If you have a iPhoneyou will just have to slide that chat to the right and mark the unread option.
Now you will have that conversation safe and you will not forget to answer anyone.
2. Create a shortcut to your most common contacts
You may always be talking to the same two or three people. If so, you can start a chat or continue with the one you already had with a single click from your screen, without having to search for the conversation in the application.
For that, you just have to create a direct access. Open the chat of that regular contact and click on the menu (the dots in the upper corner). Now among the menu options, click “More”, if it does not appear in the main ones, and “Create shortcut”.
Now already you will have that contact on the main screen of your mobile and, by clicking on it, you will directly enter the WhatsApp chat.
3. Answer voice messages with the assistant
One of the most useful WhatsApp tricks if you are driving, cycling or with your hands full, is that Siri, or the Google Now assistant on an Android phone, I sent the message for you… talking to him.
For that, Activate Siri or Google Assistant (to the latter by saying: “Ok, Google”, something you must have set up by pressing the microphone icon in the Google search bar at least once) and then say: “Send Whatsapp to (Contact Name)», a screen will appear with the contact and for you to say the message out loud.
Then it will ask you to confirm it and you can send that urgent response without taking your hands off the wheel.
4. Make an animated gif directly from WhatsApp
One of the WhatsApp tricks that few people realize is that you can send videos to your friends, but also make an animated gif of that video, directly from the application.
To do this, record the video and, when you have it, you will see a screen appear with options to edit it. At the top right you will see a button where you can Select whether it is a video format (camera icon) or an animated gif (the letters “gif” appear). By clicking there you know what will happen.
5. How to remove the blue tick from WhatsApp
We don’t know whether to define this as a WhatsApp trick or as a necessity because removing the blue tick from this application is often a therapy. You already know that the double blue tick what It tells you when a person has seen your message, which often gives you a feeling of anxiety when you see that he or she doesn’t answer you. Will something happen to him? Will he be angry? Will he be okay? Has your cell phone been stolen? We never think that maybe that person is eating, sleeping, relaxing or without time to answer.
That’s why, removing the blue tick from WhatsApp is sometimes a very healthy practice, both for whoever receives the message and for whoever sends it. So, if you don’t like them knowing what you read or stop reading and when, You can remove these reading receipts by entering the WhatsApp settings and in Account > Privacy. There you will see the option to remove read receipts.
6. Find out who has read your message in a group
Obviously this is possible if you have not deactivated the option that we just told you about, or if your friends in the WhatsApp group do not have it deactivated.
Let’s imagine that we all have the option activated so that others can see when we have read their messages. In this case, to see who in your WhatsApp group has read what you have postedYou will have to hold down the message you sent to the group until an information icon (i) or a drop-down menu with the abbreviation “info” appears at the top. By clicking on it we can see who has received it, at what time, and also who has read it and at what time.
Remember that In group chats you will not have that double blue tick to confirm the reception and reading that you have in a chat with two participants. So, if you want to confirm who has read your message in a group, this is the only way.
7. Send massive WhatsApp
A trick that is very good is the “Spread” option to send mass messages instead of going contact by contact.
If you want to communicate something to many people at once, for example, wishing a Happy New Year, sharing a project you are involved in, reporting that your cell phone has been stolen or anything else that may be useful to you, you can do it with the option “New diffusion”. In short, this will allow you to contact all the people you have in your contact book, or select the contacts that interest you, but end up sending a single WhatsApp message to all of them.
To do this, enter the application and click on the options (the famous little dots at the top). Once there you will see “New broadcast”: enter there and you will see that a field appears to enter the name or number of a contact. If you prefer, you can click the “+” button on the right to see the list of your WhatsApp contacts. That’s where you can select those contacts you want to write to en masse or select your entire list.
You will get a single conversation with the message sent to all the desired contacts.
This functionality of the “New broadcast” of WhatsApp, in addition to sending massive messages, also helps you discover .
WhatsApp tricks to personalize your messages
Now that we have mastered all the technical aspects of WhatsApp, we are going to see some more creative tricks because you can now add bold, italicize or cross out words. With what function? In addition to sending the coolest messages on the planet, they can help you emphasize some messages or make your contacts pay attention to those words you want.
8. How to make bold on WhatsApp
If you have to write something important and want to highlight a key idea in a conversation, now you can do it by putting bold in your WhatsApp messages.
To be able to use bold in your texts, you just have to write asterisks between words that you want to highlight.
For example:
*The truth is that it’s very cool*
9. Italics on WhatsApp: this is how it’s done
Another feature, perhaps somewhat less useful than bold, is italics. give it a point cool to yours WhatsApp messages with italics or use it to put verbatim what another chat participant has said before.
Among the words you want to mark in italics, set a low bar and WhatsApp will tilt that text.
For example:
_How cool Lowi_
10. Crossing out text is that easy
If you want to cross out something you write in a conversation, and this is practically aesthetic, you can use the cross out WhatsApp text.
put between the words you want to cross out the tilde of the ñ, that is, the symbol above it, the one that looks like a wave and that you had never used until now. Well, now is the time!
Example:
How easy it is to ~cross out~
These three functionalities of bolding in WhatsApp, using italics and crossing out text can be used separately, as we have just seen, or together by adding the 3 commands or the commands of those things that you want to apply to your text. If, for example, you want to use all three at the same time, you would have to put in your message: *~_Texto_~*, respecting the order of the symbols before and after the word.
So here you have them, the 10 most useful WhatsApp tricks that few people know about. Now you can surprise your friends with your use of WhatsApp in “expert mode.”
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