When you consider the fact that WhatsApp offers free messaging, as well as voice and video calls, it becomes crystal clear why it’s used by billions of people from all over the globe. In fact, you probably have it installed on your smartphone and/or PC, but, there are big chances that you didn’t spend some time exploring all the amazing features that this messaging platform has to offer.
This is why you might be wondering – are there some WhatsApp hidden secrets that I didn’t know existed? Simply said, there probably are, and the article below will shed some light on the entire topic. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at the list of 6 WhatsApp hidden secrets that you didn’t know existed:
1. You Can See When Other People Read Your Messages
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When you send something on WhatsApp, you’ll see that there are two ticks under the message you’ve sent. Once it turns blue, it means that the recipient has read your message. But, you can do so much more than that. You could opt for seeing the exact time when your message has been read.
It’s relatively simple – you just need to click and hold the message you’ve sent and once you do, it’ll be highlighted. From there, you need to press on the three dots in the upper left corner and simply press on the ‘Info’ option. Once you do this, you will see exactly when your message was sent, and more importantly, you’ll see when it was read by the receiver. This also works for group conversations as well.
2. You Can go ‘Incognito’
I don’t know about you, but there are times when I’m too busy to reply to different messages. If you want to read the message to learn what it’s about, but don’t want the other person to know that you’ve read the message but didn’t reply, you can simply choose to go ‘Incognito’.
How can you do this? Well, you need to access the ‘Privacy’ option by going to the ‘Settings’ and from there, you can opt for disabling ‘Read Receipts’. Keep in mind, if you choose to do this, you won’t be able to know when other people read you’re message, hence, this feature might be suitable for times when you’re too busy.
3. You Can Mute Individual And Group Chats
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We have all been added to various group chats that we don’t want to be a part of, yet one that we don’t want to leave because we don’t want to offend the group admin. If you want to avoid waking up to over 100 unread messages in the morning, you could opt for completely muting individuals and group conversations.
According to the experts from whatsapp-gb.blog.br, you should enter the chat that has been annoying you lately and all you’ll have to do is to go to the ‘Group Info’ option, where you’ll find the feature to ‘Mute’ it. You could also choose for how long you want it to be muted for – 8 hours, 1 week, or 1 year – click on ‘Save’, and that’s it.
4. You Can Add Chats to Your Home Screen
If there are individuals that you talk to frequently, you might want to create a shortcut to their chat on your home screen. This will allow you to save a lot of time and battery life, simply because you won’t have to open and close the app every time you want to send or read a message.
To set up the shortcut, you need to tap and hold on to the conversation – no matter if it’s a group or individuals chat – and once you do, there will be a pop-up. Choose the option that says ‘add conversation to home screen’ and when you click on the button, the chat will appear on your home screen. You could do this by accessing your widgets. You should know, this will only work for Android users.
5. You Can Use it on Your PC
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A lot of people don’t realize that they can use WhatsApp on their computers as well. Now, don’t worry, it will feature all your previous messages, hence, you can use it for responding to messages while you’re, for example, working at your office. To use this feature, you need to go to the ‘Settings’ and from there, click on ‘WhatsApp Web’.
Then, you should go to ‘web.whatsapp.com’ on your PC and scan the QR code with your smartphone. You’ll instantly gain access to the online platform and you can also instantly start chatting. This feature is extremely helpful if you frequently use this app for your work.
6. You Can Back Up Everything
When this app was first introduced to the public, we could only back up and save images from the chats, but videos couldn’t be backed up. Nowadays, this has completely changed, meaning that you can now save everything. Again, you’ll have to go to the ‘Settings’ tab where you’ll find ‘Chats And Calls’. Once you do, click on ‘Chat Backup’.
Keep in mind, you can choose when you want the backup to happen, however, you must ensure that you’re doing it over Wi-Fi since it will need a lot of data. By using this feature, you can choose what you want to save, which means that you could opt for saving images, videos, or both. Also, you could choose whether you want the backup to happen daily, weekly, or monthly.
Conclusion
As you can see, there is a wide range of hidden features that you could choose to use on WhatsApp. From muting group chats that have been annoying you for some time, all the way to creating shortcuts on your home screen of the chats you use the most, all of the aforementioned features will definitely make your life easier.
So, now that you’ve learned more about the hidden features that you could use, you really shouldn’t waste any more of your time. Instead, you should return to the beginning of our list, go through it one more time, and then determine which features you might want to try out.
