8 Top Whatsapp Tips and Tricks for 2020
Whatsapp, which is a powerful social messaging tool is very straightforward to use, but there are a lot of fun tricks, tips and shortcut ways of using hidden features right away in a most convenient way. We have compiled below some tips and tricks you need to know to have a better experience using Whatsapp.
Pinning a chat to the top
Do you want to message a loved one or essential person easily without needing to browse through numerous chats all the time, the trick here is to pin that particular conversation to the top. If you are using IOS, swipe left to right and press pin chat but for Android press on the chat display and press the pin at the top of the screen.
Change your wallpaper background.
Have cool wallpaper display all the time you want, head to settings click on chats, then chats wallpaper and choose wallpaper library and finally, choose the background wallpaper of your choice.
Saving a message for future use
There will always be several messages after a chat, but if there’s a particular message you need to save for later and you can’t easily retrieve from the conversations, don't worry, you can use this trick. Just tap the search icon to search across all the messages to get the message you needed to archive.
Sending your immediate location to a friend
Do you want your friend to know your exact location, then tap the +sign next to the message box >tap location> click live share location. Whatsapp will instantly send your friend your location.
Adding emphasis to your words
Do you need to always add emphasis to your messages like bolding, italicizing or strikethrough? To achieve the bold font add an asterisk on either side of the word you are typing, for italics, add underscore on either side of the word, for strikethrough add tilde on either side of the word.
Privately reply group chat message.
You don't want everyone on a group chat to see your message; then it is simple to achieve. Using IOS press and hold a message in the group >press more > press reply privately and type out your message. For Android, press and hold the message > press the three dots in the top right hand corner > press reply privately.
Saving data on Whatsapp
This is the sneakiest tip for Whatsapp; you can keep an eye on how data is being used on your Whatsapp. Head to Setting and tap on data &storage usage, then media Auto-download and turn on Wi-Fi to download media only when you connect to Wi-Fi network.
To appear to be online always.
Do you want to appear to be online on your Whatsapp? Then you can do this trick without much hassle. All you need do is to sign up on the Whatsapp web app. This will automatically sync all things from your phone. With this it will look as if you are always available and using it with iPad will be easy.