If you stayed true WhatsApp Despite the controversy with updating its privacy policy and you did not “get off the boat” to move Telegram, we have good news for you, because it exists 12 functions that the application hid so far you can use them by following these steps.
The 12 hidden functions of WhatsApp and how to activate them
- Prevent photos and videos from being saved on your mobile phone
Prevent your smartphone’s memory from being saturated with unnecessary files, such as those good morning Tweety or thousands of motivational phrases in pictures. What you should do is enter settings, soon Chats and there you can deactivate the option Media file visibility.
- Unread conversations
You’ve probably opened a conversation and forgotten to reply, but you can avoid that inconvenience by clicking chat for a few seconds and choosing mark as unread, just like you do in email.
- The last connection disappears
If you don’t want to spy on your connections, go ahead settings, then Invoice and then Privacy. There is the option to Last seen which you can choose for all or just some contacts, though it’s important to remember that if you turn off this option, you won’t be able to see the last connection for your contacts.
To find out if a message has been sent, received or read, click on it and select the three-point menu, click on the option Information and there you will see all the details of the message.
- Listen to audio before sending
You have to be agile with your fingers to be able to do this trick. When you finish recording the sound, you need to quickly exit the application while pressing the record button, and when you enter the conversation again, you will see that the sound is maintained and you can listen to it, delete it or send it.
- Self-destructive messages
Temporary messages with a default lifetime are activated by clicking on the chat contact name, the option Posts and then in Activated.
To know which contact you have the most interaction with, you just have to go to settings, Click on Data storage and in Use of storage.
In the menu settings click on Chats and select the option Wallpaper, you will be able to find all available images for each conversation.
- Change the text format
This function is used to highlight text or to give more importance to messages, with a few characters before and after text you can change the text to * bold font *, _italics_ ~ cut ~.
Don’t miss an important message among the hundreds of texts you receive every day, mark them as favorites by holding them down, select the star, and then you can find them faster in the option Recommended positions.
Recognize who is sending you a message without having to look at the screen, all while customizing the tone of each contact. Click on the name and press Custom tone.
- Become a beta tester
If you already knew all these hidden functions, you just have to be one WhatsApp Beta Tester. You can be one of the first people to try the new features that the application will integrate, for now the test program has already reached the maximum capacity of the participants, so you will have to wait for the program to come out again.
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