Unlocking the Secrets: 10 WhatsApp Features You Didn’t Know About
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, with over 2 billion users. While most of us use it for basic messaging, there are some hidden features that can enhance your experience and make your conversations even more enjoyable. In this blog, we’ll uncover five secret WhatsApp features you probably didn’t know about.
1. Pin Chats to the Top
If you’re part of numerous group chats or have many ongoing conversations, you can pin your most important chats to the top of your chat list. To do this, simply long-press on a chat and tap the pin icon that appears. This will save you the hassle of scrolling through your chats to find the most important ones.
2. Customize Notifications for Specific Chats
Tired of hearing the same notification tone for every chat? WhatsApp allows you to customize notifications for individual chats or groups. Go to the chat you want to customize, tap on the contact’s name or group name, and then choose “Custom Notifications.” You can set a unique tone, vibration, or even LED color for that chat.
3. Find Specific Messages in a Chat
Looking for a particular message within a lengthy chat history? You don’t need to scroll endlessly. In the chat, tap on the contact’s name or group name, and then select “Search.” You can enter keywords and WhatsApp will find and highlight the messages containing those words.
4. Starred Messages for Quick Reference
You can mark important messages with a star and access them easily whenever you want. To star a message, long-press the message and tap the star icon that appears. You can view your starred messages by going to WhatsApp’s main menu and selecting “Starred Messages.”
5. Read Messages Without Letting the Sender Know
Sometimes you might want to read a message without sending a read receipt. To do this, enable “Airplane Mode” or “Read Receipts” off before opening the message. After reading the message, close the app and turn off “Airplane Mode” or “Read Receipts.” This way, the sender won’t know you’ve read their message.
6. Goodbye to Blue Ticks
The blue ticks on WhatsApp take away the privilege and define it all that the recipient has glanced over the message. Not at all fair at recipient’s end, if you feel the same, we have the hack for you to let these messages marked as unread so that the person sending you messages could not figure it out.
7. Get Shortcuts to Conversations
What’s the difference between an acquaintance and your bezzie mate? Won’t you love to pin your most favorite people directly on your home screen? If yes, you got to try the “add chat short” feature that WhatsApp offers to the users.
Tap and hold on to the chat icon (you can choose an individual or a group chat). Holding the chat icon for long will serve a popup. Select the “add chat shortcut” and the chat will appear as the person’s profile picture on your mobile desktop. However, the feature is not available for iPhone users.
8. Getting Your Friends’ Location
WhatsApp offers the feature of sharing live location, which appears after tapping the pin-like structure that sits at the right of every profile where you type the message.
9. Sending Public Message Privately
Making the generic announcement to your friends is not a big deal, however, sending a message that seems it has only been curated for the receiver surely is. But wait, WhatsApp offers you a hack for that too.
The top-left hand corner of your WhatsApp window features Broadcast Lists. Tapping the icon will create a new list of contact you want to send the messages to. You can message normally the way you message to the contacts
10. Change the Video to GIF
GIFs are popular across the web. Sending these to your contacts really make the conversation much more exciting. And WhatsApp offers you a way to change the videos to the GIF format.
From the paper-clip icon choose the camera in order to record your video. Click ok and then trim the video. Tap the camcorder icon in the upper right corner and send the video.
WhatsApp is continuously evolving, and these secret features can enhance your messaging experience. While these features may not be entirely hidden, many users aren’t aware of them. So go ahead, explore, and make your WhatsApp conversations more efficient and enjoyable!