WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging services in the world. Every day more than a billion people around the world send messages through it. WhatsApp is known as the safest messaging service in the world. It has an end-to-end encryption feature that not allows anyone to read a message you send to another person. Even WhatsApp can’t read them. This service is designed to be needed but not done. Because of this, you will not be able to report a message sent to you by anyone for any reason. In your opinion, if someone sends something unwanted, you can only block the person on your side.
Because of this, WhatsApp includes various additional features as well as several secret tricks for your convenience in using WhatsApp. So today, we are going to tell you about such WhatsApp secrets that most people do not know.
#1. Properties of Fonts
When sending a message using WhatsApp, you can make some words or sentences bold and italic to make your message clearer to the reader. For example, if you are sending a paragraph-type message, it is not much interest to read. On such occasions, you can use bold and italic to grab the attention of the reader for relevant sections. Perhaps you already know that you can choose a word or phrase and make it bold or italic. But it can do more easily now. All you have to do is asterisk the beginning and end of the word or phrase you want to bold and underscore the beginning and the end you want to make italic.
Check the following example.
*bold* and _italic_
#2. Can Send Multiple Messages
When we want to send the same message to more people using WhatsApp, what we do is copy and pastes the relevant text. If not you, can forward a text sent to one person. Did you know there is an easier way to send the same message to a large group of people? For this, you can use the broadcast feature in the settings. Use the green round button to start a new message, and you can select who you want to send the message to right away. They will all be included in the broadcast. The uniqueness of this method is that it does not record in any way in the recipient’s app that you are sending the same message.
#3. Contact Shortcut
When we want to chat with our closest friends, we do not need to open WhatsApp and go to the relevant chat. We can now create a shortcut to go straight to the group or chat. Then you can go directly to the relevant chat by tapping it from the home screen. This feature is also available for individuals and groups. All you have to do is go to the relevant chat or group and select add chat shortcut from the features in the top right corner. Then an icon will appear directly on the home screen. Not only this, with this method, you can share something as well.
#4. Best Font Style
Messages sent through WhatsApp are often recorded from the font on the person’s phone. Therefore, even if you like to use individual fonts or font styles, your message should write in the same font on the phones of those who like it. However, when using WhatsApp, you can send your message at any time, as seen in the typewriter font. All you have to do is use the “`TEXT“` sign at the beginning and end of each word. But do not mistake with (‘). Then no matter what font style person uses, a message on the phone of the person concerned will be displayed in a simple typewriter font.
#5. Bypass the Gallery
When you use WhatsApp, the usual way is to automatically save the photos and videos we receive as they appear directly in your gallery. If you often get valuable things, it can be a great help if they appear in the gallery without looking for them in the WhatsApp chat. But it can also mean losing your privacy. Filing the memory of the phone is another problem. Because of this, if you want, you can stop the photos and videos you receive from being stored on the phone as seen in your gallery on WhatsApp. All you have to do is go to WhatsApp settings and disable the feature called Save Incoming Media. Then it will be automatically erased when you leave WhatsApp other than the ones you download specifically.
#6. Access by Computer
Today, the speed of Bluetooth technology is not enough to transfer files to many people. So most of the time if, you want to simply send something from your phone to a computer you have to use a Wi-Fi app or a cloud created for that purpose.
However, instead of installing a third-party program for it, you can easily do that via WhatsApp. To do this, first, create a group where you are alone. You can do this by creating a group with a friend and removing that friend. All you have to do now is log in to your web.whatsapp.com website from your computer and select WhatsApp web features from WhatsApp on your phone. You also need to scan the QR code displayed on the computer. Now you can simply get anything you send to that group from your computer. If the phone and the computer are on the same Wi-Fi network, the data will not go for this.
#7. Starred Messages
Sometimes a WhatsApp group tries to inform you about important information. But a lot of people use chats and get overwhelmed. When you turn on the data, you have seen the experience of seeing hundreds of new messages. So if you are in a group that receives such unwanted things, you can use this bookmark feature to quickly find important messages.
All you have to do is star the message. If it is an android phone, you can do it by long-pressing the relevant text. And if it is an iPhone, double-tapping on the text will do it. Then you will have the opportunity to go to the relevant chat and view only the important things immediately. These messages are under the starred messages.
#8. WhatsApp Notification
Sometimes it can be annoying when a message appears on the screen so that others can see it. Most new phones can change this under notification settings. But if you are using an old phone, there may not be a common solution for all the messages that appear on the screen at once. All you have to do is go to the WhatsApp notification setting and disable the preview feature. You can set it to any group or contact or all messages at any time. Then if your phone is not with you, when a message arrives, no one else will be able to see it.
#9. WhatsApp Data Usage Controller
While studying at an educational institution while doing a job, there are many occasions when we have to join some WhatsApp groups even though we do not like it. Due to the frequent photos, videos, and materials that some people put in them, not only will run out of data there is a chance that the memory of the phone will be filled. That’s why it can be essential to use another method to protect your data in such cases. To do this, go to WhatsApp settings and select the data usage feature. It allows you to choose what automatically downloads when you use your phone’s data, Wi-Fi, etc. In addition, if you are a regular WhatsApp user, there is an option to minimize the amount of data used.
#10. WhatsApp Security
Even if the notification is disabled, if someone has unlocked your phone, there is no problem in going to WhatsApp and reading it. If you have to give the phone to someone, this may interfere with your privacy. If you want to get some security in such cases, you can also lock WhatsApp completely. All you have to do is apply a lock to WhatsApp. However, the app will only be available later on phones with fingerprint authentication. If your phone does not have a fingerprinting facility, you have to download a small app called WhatsApp lock for that. Then you can put a PIN on it and lock WhatsApp.
We hope you enjoy this article. You can use this knowledge to operate and solve problems you had when using WhatsApp. So do not forget to share it with your friends. You can read more technology-related articles.
