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10 useful functions for each WhatsApp user messenger

According to the report by App Annie, the most popular in Russia among the applications for instant messaging is WhatsApp. Not surprising: the application for fellowship is made so as to use it was easy and simple. But this does not mean that there are no non-obvious features, tricks and possibilities. Resource Delfi offered ten most interesting of them.

1. The web version

If you’re typing on a computer keyboard much faster than on your smartphone, the web version may seem an interesting alternative to the mobile client. In order to use it, we should find in the programs menu feature WhatsApp Web and then go to web.whatsapp.com and scan with your smartphone camera QR-code, which will appear on this site. Then, the web version will realize that you are you and will allow you to chat on a large screen and convenient keyboard.

2. Information about delivery and read

To see exactly when the message was delivered and read, in iOS “prelestnitsa” it to the left, and Android tap your finger and hold for the appearance of the Info button (“i” in a circle) at the top of the screen. Now your friends won’t be able to tell stories about what they saw the message “too late”!

3. “Jamming” group chats

One of the strengths of WhatsApp is the possibility of group communication. However, if the group is large, and the participants are many and they are chatty, then chat may quickly get bored with constant notifications of new messages. To pacify him, go to chat and click on the menu button (Android) or group name (iOS) and select “do Not disturb”. Can be locked in 8 hours, a week or even a year. In Android you can also make the alerts still show, but silently.

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4. Send chat an email

Maybe you want to save the chat, to remind friends about the arrangements or to send to someone particular conversation — whatever the reason, send IMS via email to WhatsApp is easy and simple. Even include pictures and smileys-Emoji.

On Android go to chat, hit menu, then More -> Email chat. In iOS this function is hiding behind clicking on “the strip” at the top of the chat. Sending in both cases will happen through the default mail client.

5. Setting “hot contacts”

This feature is only for Android users. In menu, go to chat and select More ->Add shortcut. As a result of this action on the home screen icon will appear with photo and name of the contact, clicking on which will immediately open the chat with him. The only negative is an arbitrary name and can be exactly what is written in WhatsApp.

6. Options for the paranoid

Don’t want everybody to see when was the last time you were online? It is disabled in Account –> Privacy menu. However, relevant information on other you will cease to see. In this menu it is possible to hide your current status and photo from unknown contacts or all. There you can disable the display of the notifications, delivery and read (“tick” messages in chat), but if you do, then you will not be able to see when I read your posts.

7. Sending current location

We’re not even going to list the situations in which sending your current location can be useful — from “honey, I’m lost, take me” and to “Auntie, we are already halfway to Liepaja”. To send your location in iOS tap on the Share button in the bottom left of the chat and select Share Location. On Android for this you should click on the icon of a paper clip with which you usually attach photos. From the menu, select Location.

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8. Forwarding messages and images

Not everything that happens in chat in WhatsApp, stays in WhatsApp chat — some sent to others, of course, if you know how. On Android, press and hold the message, and then press the Forward button (upper right corner) and select new contact. In iOS everything is a little harder too hit and hold, but after you select Forward to go back to WhatsApp, you have to go through the standard share menu in iOS. And on Android, and on iOS you can select multiple lines to be sent.

9. Whether you want to save photos and videos

On iOS everything that gets in WhatsApp, automatically saved in the Camera Roll to which the device is accessed by all applications. If you do not want this, you need to go to settings, then Chat Settings and turn off Save Incoming Media. In Android there is no similar option, although photos and videos are saved in a separate folder, technically separated from the main device gallery. Another thing is that not all programs respect this “separation”…

10. Backup and restore

For any backup of all the chat happens automatically every day. On iOS you need to go to settings, Backup will start Chat and connect this app to iCloud. If you do, when you change your phone to restore all chats can be easily and simply connecting the backup once again. For Android more difficult — or will have to transfer the microSD card, which stores the data of WhatsApp, or use third-party programs and copy everything from /sdcard/WhatsApp/ at the same place on your new smartphone (if you have no SD card, look for the WhatsApp folder in a different location).

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