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Thursday, 2 March 2017

Customise WhatsApp notifications

There might be certain contacts you want to know instantly if they are calling or messaging you.

To make sure they don't blend into the crowd, you can change their specific alert tones so you recognise when that particular person has sent you a message or is WhatsApp calling you.

iOS & Android: Chats > Specific chat > Tap on contact name at top > Custom Notifications

Find out how long you've been ignored for in whatsapp.

There is nothing more annoying than seeing those blue ticks appear without a reply following soon after. If you want to torture yourself a little more and find out when your message was actually read and how long you've been ignored for, you can.

We don't advise it though.

iOS: Chats > Specific chat > Specific message > Swipe left to right

Android: Chats > Specific chat > Specific message > Press and hold > Tap the info "i" icon at the top

Send a public message privately in whatsapp.

how to Send a public message privately in whatsapp.

Ever had a free evening and wanted to ask several of your friends if they are around without having to open up each chat to ask them seperately?

You can send a broadcast message to a list of contacts with it appearing as though you've asked them individually. Great for saving time, terrible if they all reply yes.

iOS: Chats > Broadcast Lists > New List > Add contacts

Android: Chats > Menu > New Broadcast

Some messages are more important than others. Whether it's a date you need to remember, or a good restaurant you've been recommended. It's possible to bookmark these messages and find them all easily in the Starred Messages section.

iOS: Chats > Specific chat > Specific message > Double tap or hold down and press the star

Android: Chats > Specific chat > Specific message > Hold down and press the star

Get shortcuts to specific conversations in Whatsapp

How to Get shortcuts to specific conversations

Do you have a few extra special people you talk to all the time via WhatsApp? We do too. You can create a shortcut for specific conversations on Android, making it easier to access those chats you need all the time.

Android: Chats > Specific chat > Menu > More > Add Shortcut or Chats > Press and hold individual chat > Menu > Add Chat Shortcut

Hide your profile picture in Whatsapp

Hide your profile picture
You might not want everyone to see your profile picture, especially if you're part of several groups where you don't know everyone in the group.

perhaps you just fancy being a little mysterious for the day. Either way, you can choose if everyone, no-one, or only your contacts see your picture.

iOS & Android: Settings > Account > Privacy > Profile Photo

Stop people seeing your messages in Whatsapp

Ever passed your phone to a friend and instantly panicked about the messages they might see come through? Yeah, we haven't either. For those that have, you can turn off message preview on iOS so only the contact's name will appear, rather than their life story.

In Android, it's not possible through the WhatsApp app but you can stop private information showing up on your lock screen in Android itself.

iOS: Settings > Notifications > Toggle off Show Preview

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Save your data allowance

If you've got a limited data allowance, you don't want WhatsApp munching it all away. Thankfully, you can customise when media is allowed to download, as well as ensure calls use as little data as possible.

iOS and Android: Settings > Data Usage

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Mark chats as unread in Whatsapp

Ever been out and about, read a chat and then completely forgot to reply? We do it all the time. There is a way to mark important chats with dot to remind you to go back to it though.

iOS: Chats > Swipe left to right > Mark as Unread

Android: Long press chat > Open Menu > Mark as Unread

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Find who you talk to most - Whatsapp

Who is really your favourite person? It might not be who you think. On iOS, there is a way to find the people you send the most messages to and how much storage each person takes up, among other things.

iOS: Settings > Account > Storage Usage > Select Contact
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Hide the blue ticks in Whatsapp

Those blue ticks can get you in a whole world of trouble, especially when you don't reply instantly and someone sees you have read their messages.

You can turn them off, but it's worth noting that if you do, you won't get read receipts for your messages either.

iOS: Settings > Account > Privacy > Toggle off Read Receipts.

Android: Settings > Account > Privacy > Untick Read Receipts.
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Whatsapp Message Status

Every user want to check the delivery of his/her message and want to know that weather the message has been read by the recipient or not.

If you are chatting with a single friend then following heck marks will appear next to each message you send. Here is what each one indicates:

Message has been successfully sent.

Message has been successfully delivered to the recipient's phone.

The recipient has read your message.

Your Voice message has been delivered to recipient mobile.

Your Voice message have been listened by recipient.

but is you are chatting in group having more than two members. then

Message has been successfully sent.

Message has been successfully delivered to the ALL recipient's phone.

ALL recipient has read your message.

But how to check how many friends has read your message and how many left to read it. the following is the method to test.

Select the single message that you want to check

Click the message info. button at the top, that will take you to Message info screen where you can see who has been seen your message and who are in waiting list. See below figure

If you only see a single check mark next to your message, there is likely nothing wrong with WhatsApp or your phone. There may be several reasons why your message has been sent, but not delivered to all of your chat partner

If you see double check, means msg delivers to all recipients but all do not read it. there might be some friends who have read but not all.

If you see Blue double tick the message delivered and read by all recipients of the group.

Further detail you can see in Message Info screen, Read by, Delivered by and User Remaining

Format Text in Whatsapp

WhatsApp finally lets its users to format text while messaging friends. text can be written in written in bold, italic and with words crossed out.

Formatted text takes more attraction and attention to the reader, specially Bold, italic and ~~Strike through~~ words word in text. see below

Formation is very easy and quickly, there is no need to install any other software/application or etc. there are some few symbols used in whatsapp to format the text. Text format means Bold, italic and strike through, but not changing the colour of the text. A user does not need to enable or disable any other option in whatsapp or setting,

How to Bold the text in whatsapp.

Lets take an example to understand how to format the text.

Type the word Hye Guys in your whatsapp message area. to make it bold type * before and after the word like this *Hye Guys*. See below

When you insert * after the word. it immediately become bold. then write rest part of the text in normal and sent to your friend to attract them more.

Yes and Done, type in bold style and enjoy it. Whole of the msg in bold form is not good for the chatting with friends but just some of the word in bold style attact them more.

Make only those words bold that are important to let the friends to focus more. try and enjoy

How to Italic the text in whatsapp

Instead of inserting star (*), type underscore _ after and before the word like _Chaudhary_ see below

How to Strikethrough the text in whatsapp

Type ~ symbol after and before the word like ~Chaudhary~ see below

Note: If you are unable to format the text in your whatsapp then plz update the application and try it again. Old versions of whatsapp does not provide this format text facility to its users.

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