A MUST KNOW – These Are The Few Important Whatsapp Features You May Not Know About

A MUST KNOW – These Are The Few Important
Whatsapp Features You May Not Know About

Whatsapp without any arguments is the
number mobile app and chat messenger in
the world, these days whatsapp has turn to
even a home and living for some people, has
many chat do without being online.

12 Whatsapp Features You Must Know For
Android And iPhone
For a fact, some have gotten addicted in a
way they even go as much, the first thing
they do when they are awake (immediately)
is to switch on their data and check whatsapp
messages; tells you how addicted many are
now to whatsapp messenger.

It would perhaps be so drab to use whatsapp
messenger on daily basis and not know of
some basic features, which could aid your
usage of the app. For a fact, though
arguable, many do not know about these
features and they use and claim they know
whatsapp so well.

So for the neutrals or ignorant once, just to
add a few to our knowledge about whatsapp
messenger, i have in this post decided to
share some important features you need to
know about your whatsapp, take a look below,
am sure you will have a few to say on this too.

1. Whatsapp Web
This means instead of constantly divided
your time between your computer and your
mobile phone to be checking your messages
you Use WhatsApp on your computer by simply
connecting your phone.

You can either
download the app to your computer or just
use the browser version.
To use WhatsApp Web go to web.whatsapp.com
on your computer and Settings > WhatsApp
Web on your phone. Scan the QR code
displayed on your desktop screen using your
phone’s camera.

2. Whatsapp Documents Sharing
You can Send PDFs, documents, spreadsheets,
slideshows and more, without the hassle of
email or file sharing apps.
To do that just tap on the icon that looks like
an office clip on pin and select documents.
You can send documents up to 100 MB, so it’s
easy to get what you need over to who you
want.

3. Capture And Pictures And Videos Instantly
Aside from the file transfer of photos and
videos you can even capture with built-in
camera and send.
To do this tap the on the icon that looks like
an office clip on pin then select ‘Camera’.
Then long hold the cycle at the bottom (for
android phones) to start recording. The cycle
turns red and a timer appears at the top of
your screen.

4. Formatting: Bold, Italics, Strikethrough
WhatsApp allows you to format your text by
adding symbols in front of and after words
to achieve a level of aesthetics or emphasis.
You can format to bold, italics, and strike
through. For BOLD add asterisks to either side
of a word or sentence, e.g. *bold* For Italics
start and end the message with underscores.
Example _italics_
For strikethrough text add tildes at the
beginning and end of the word. Example:
~strikethrough~

5. (Most) Frequent Person(s) You Chat With
You can find out who among your contact you
chat with most. For android go to Settings >
Chat > Chat History > Email Chat to view your
most chat up contacts. While for iphone Go to
Settings > Data and Storage Use > Storage
Use.

6. Track Your Whatsapp Activities (Statistics)
To know the number of messages received,
sent, status, data consumed and other such
statistics go to Setting> Data Usage > Network
Usage. You can also reset this statistics. You
can also limit the amount of data you use In
the Data Usage menu by ticking the box.

7. Whatsapp Group: Stop And Mute
Notifications
If you belong to some overzealous whatsapp
group and it keeps getting you distracted you
can mute it.
Go to open the group > select menu (three dot
at top right)> choose duration from options.
You can also stop notifications using this
same step just un-tick the box

8. Read Messages Without Blue Ticks Showing
In Whatsapp one tick means message sent,
two tick messages received/delivered, blue
tick message read.
If you don’t want to let your contact know
you have read their messages go to menu>
settings>accounts> privacy > untick read
receipts. At this place for android users you
can also modify your last seen, who see your
profile photos etc.

9. Quick H@ck For Read Messages
Referring to number 8 if you deactivate your
read receipts you also cannot see when they
read your message.
So to eat your cake and still have it without
having to deactivate your read receipt, once
you have received the messages you want to
read without letting them know, put your
phone on airplane mode. Go to whatsapp,
read the messages, when you are done close
it then turn –off your airplane mode.

10. Stop Whatsapp Auto Download Of Media
Files
To conserve data and or storage space you
can stop incoming pictures and videos
automatically saving to your phone just go to
Settings -> Chats -> turn off Save Incoming
Media.

11. Save Whatsapp Status
Yes you can save any whatsapp status of your
choice, be it a video or picture, after viewing
it, then you can save it on your phone gallery
or any other folder of your choice for later
purposes,

12. Save And Install Android Applications Or
Games On Whatsapp
Yes, on whatsapp you can send and receive/
save any android application, sending it as
long as you have the APK file of the android

app; just follow the steps below
step1: go to file manager

step2: find the apk file of the app/game you
want to send

step3: rename that apk file, where you see
apk erase is and type doc or txt

step4: long press that file then click share

then via whatsapp eg: you send NARUTO. it
will be Naturo.apk so change it to Naruto.doc
or Naruto.txt then send it.
How To Install The APK File

step1: download the app/game in whatsapp

step2: go to file manager

step3: go to whatsapp

folder>>media>>>documents
step4: rename that app/game. where there is
doc or txt put apk

step5: now click install

That’s all, hope its helpful, if you have more
tips/features, kindly send them via the

comment box below.