Tips And Tricks For Whats App Users

WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging application that allows iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia smartphone users to exchange text, image, video and audio messages for free.

User's love it for its security flaws and privacy issues. Today i'm going to share some tips and tricks for whats app users to get the most out of it.



Send private messages in bulk, BCC-style

Privacy on the internet is a hard thing to hold onto, but even the famously unprivate WhatsApp has a few features that let you do things on the down-low. Want to send out a group message without everyone in the group seeing who else received that message, and then seeing every subsequent response to the message? That's what the Broadcast feature is for, and using it is simple:

• Tap the Options icon at the top right (three dots).
• Tap New broadcast
• Enter the names of all the contacts you want to send your private message to.
• Tap Create, write your message, then send it.

Hide 'Last seen', profile photo and status

Getting thrown into a big group chat filled with party guests and people you don't know can be bewildering. Suddenly, your profile picture is staring back at a chatroom full of strangers, who can also see your status and when you're reading messages. If I wanted a whole flock of strangers ogling and judging a photo of me, I'd have gone on Tinder. Here's how to have better control over who sees this information on WhatsApp:

• Tap the Options icon at the top right of WhatsApp
• Go to Settings > Account > Privacy
• Go through the Last seen, Profile photo, and Status options, then set their visibility to Everyone, My contacts or Nobody, depending on how much privacy you want.

Mute annoying group chats

We've all been in that position where we've somehow been dragged into a group chat that we either didn't really want to be in in the first place or just don't want to receive notifications from every couple of minutes. Rather than just leave the chat, which may be offend some people, you can simply mute the chat so you stop receiving notifications from it.

• In WhatsApp, tap the Chats tab
• Tap the group you want to mute.
• With the group open, tap the Options icon at the top right
• Tap Mute, then select the amount of time you want to mute the group for. You can also untick the Show notifications box so that you never hear from the group again until you decide otherwise.

Create a homescreen shortcut for your favorite chats

Do you have certain friends with whom you have constant stream-of-consciousness conversations, where you're non-stop WhatsApp'ing all day, every day? If so, then you can create a shortcut icon to those conversations, which will appear on your Android homescreen. This means you can jump straight into chats with your BFFs and important groups.

• In WhatsApp, tap the Chats tab.
• Tap and hold the conversation you want to create a shortcut for.
• When the list of options appears, tap Add conversation shortcut
• A shortcut displaying your contact's profile picture will now appear on your homescreen. Tap it to jump straight in and start chatting to them.

Recover deleted messages

By default WhatsApp backs up your messages every day at 4am. This means that if you've deleted any messages since then, but before the next auto-backup, you can still recover them. To do this:

• Uninstall WhatsApp from your device (Settings > Apps > WhatsApp > Uninstall).
• Reinstall WhatsApp.
• Type your phone number into WhatsApp, then it should notify you that it's found a backup of your chats.
• Tap Restore to get your deleted messages back.

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