WhatsApp users? Ten Tips You Must Know

The WhatsApp Messaging app is updated frequently and brings with it new features that change and enhance the user experience. Whether you use it frequently or frequently, here are 10 tips you just need to know and improve your app experience

WhatsApp users? Ten Tips You Must Know

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Deleting messages, stickers, pending calls, and group video calls; These are just some of the new features that Wattsap has added to the app in recent years. As a matter of fact, the updates seem to just keep coming at a dizzying pace, and almost every week we get to hear about a new change, for better or worse. Thus, the stickers that have taken over the Telegram app years ago, came to Wetsap almost a year ago and have since been tremendously successful. So does the possibility of deleting messages for both sides and locking the app by biometric detection. All of these features first reach the beta beta of the app, which is why Wetsap gathers feedback on new features it plans to offer to the general public. Wattsap already has a billion and a half active users and is considered the world's most popular messaging app. Here are ten tips you just need to know.

Record messages without touching the screen

While voice messaging is probably the most well-known and popular feature of Wetsap, besides sending text messages of course, many users do not know that messages can be recorded without touching the screen. In order to do so. Chat in Wetsap, press and hold the microphone button, then slide up and release. When you're done recording, just press the send button.

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Wattsap (Photo: ShutterStock)

Wattsap (Photo: ShutterStock)

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Mark your important messages

WhatsApp may look for old messages, but it may take a lot of time and older devices this feature tends to work very slowly. However, the app allows you to mark important messages by holding down a message and then selecting the star in the top menu. You can then access all or all of those messages from a particular chat without filtering the messages to a specific person by clicking the menu on the app's main screen and then "Starred messages". For iPhone users, the checkout process is completely identical, but to access notifications, go to Settings and click "Starred Messages".

Easily change your status for any occasion

The status function in Wetsap is probably one of the least popular options, which is probably because many don't tend to attach importance to it. However, the company still thinks that this is something that every user can adapt and share with their friends. Access your personal page in the app via the settings screen, where you can choose to write your own status or use one of the ready-made apps. Using this text field, according to Wetsap, you can share with your platform contacts what's going on with you.

Put your smartphone aside

Hiding your smartphone and reading it on WhatsApp messages is probably a thing of the past. Today, you can easily do this through your browser or app on your computer, without even touching your smartphone. It's pretty simple: Download the Whatsapp app to Mac or otherwise, log on to web.whatsapp.com through your computer's browser. Then, just to the initial setting, open the app on your smartphone, go to the settings menu and click Whatsapp Web and scan the barcode on the screen. In a few seconds you will be able to see your messages reflected on the computer screen and send messages, photos and videos just like your smartphone.

Wattsap (Photo: ShutterStock)

Wattsap (Photo: ShutterStock)

Upgrade your conversations with stickers

While a lot of people are using emojis in their messages, Wetsap has recently added another feature that may upgrade your conversations even more. The sticker feature has been on Telegram for a long time now, but in Wattsap it has been added quite recently and it has become more and more popular ever since. Just click on the image screen, and in the bottom menu, click the small square to the right of the word GIF. There you can choose which sticker you want to send. If you want to add your own stickers in the app, we've already prepared a detailed guide on how to do this in minutes.

You can read messages without even knowing the blue hoi

So yes, we have seen quite a few updates over the past few years, including the indication of whether the other party has read the post, which could very well compromise our privacy and create quite a few quarrels. We are, of course, talking about the blue ho that gives an indication to the other party whether you read the message or not. The app did allow users to turn off the call markers at a cost that they also can't see who read their messages, but it turns out that there is a way to easily bypass the call markers, even without completely disabling the feature. Whether it's the Android widget or identifying the click volume on your iPhone - this is probably a guide you won't want to miss.

This is how you will read messages without activating the Blue Hoi indicator

It turns out that there is a way to get around the call mark easily, even without completely disabling the feature. Whether it's the Android widget or identifying the click volume on your iPhone. The option in Android is the simplest. Even when the update was first released, users have already noticed that the WhatsApp widget displays the full sent messages and thus allows it to be read, but no matter how long we delay a message, as long as you don't press and open the conversation, the message remains unread. That is, if the user on the other side opens the conversation, they will still see a pair of gray and not blue Vi markings.

On the iPhone, however, you can do so thanks to a 3D-Touch feature that allows the screen to detect the user's click volume. So, if the user clicks hard on the screen, the iPhone will offer him more options. If you click on a particular conversation in Wetsap it will open and the messages will be marked as read, but when you press harder on the screen, you can preview the last messages in the conversation without the other party knowing you have read them.

Wattsap (Photo: ShutterStock)

WhatsApp correspondence via smartphone (Photo: ShutterStock)

This is how you get the new features before everyone

Westap allows the general public to join the beta, which is the first releases, before they even officially reach the app store. It is important to note that these versions may have malfunctions and disruptions, but these are usually fairly stable versions. The same versions allow Wattsap to try the new features on a limited audience. Android users can opt-in to this version as follows: Log in to the app store and search for the Wetsap app there. On the app's page, scroll down until you find the "Become a Beta Tester" option. Click the green button and mark that you want to participate in the company's Experimental Program. After a few minutes, the beta will reach your device just like any regular app update.

For iPhone users: To sign up for the Wetsap Beta program, first download the "TestFlight" app, available in the app store. This is the official app for downloading beta versions and apps that have not yet uploaded to the app store. Then, go to the following link [https://testflight.apple.com/join/s4rTJVPb] through your iPhone and sign up for the beta program. As of this writing, the beta is currently full, but space can be vacated at any moment.

Choose who can add you to groups

In order to combat Pike News and the spam that is increasing day by day in the Wetsap messaging app, a few weeks ago, the company released an update that allows you to change your privacy settings for adding to groups. For example, you can choose whether you can add you to groups and change the parameters: anyone, friends, or everyone except some people. You can see the new menu in settings, account, privacy and groups.

Upgrade your text messages

Like Word and similar word processors like Google Docs, Wetsap lets you emphasize words and phrases. If you want to highlight text or highlight headers, you can do this by starring text. To emphasize the text, start the sentence with an asterisk and end it with an asterisk, for example *. This is how the word "example" will be highlighted. IPhone users won't see the text highlighted until the message is sent, while on Android it can be seen immediately with the asterisk.

It also allows a font (font) to be changed. If you have text that you want to change the font to, you can do so by using the cursor `. Note that this is not a comma, but a "grave accent" marker that is used mainly in languages ​​such as English, French, Dutch or Italian. Because it is not such a common marker, it is usually on the second menu of signs. Just like highlighting text, or italics, place the cursor at the beginning and end of the text. But unlike the rest, you will not be able to preview the text nor Android.