WhatsApp Tips and Tricks 2023

 

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It is a hugely popular mobile messaging app that’s favored by two billion monthly active users. Fans love that WhatsApp lets them chat, call and video call for free, as well as send each other photos and videos. However, WhatsApp is so rich in features that you might feel overwhelmed at first.

 

That’s when these WhatsApp tips might come in handy.

 

Key Takeaways:

1. WhatsApp has become a big part of our lives. If you use it, it’s important to get acquainted with the little tricks that help you get everything out of the app.

2. WhatsApp is especially useful as a messaging platform for groups where multiple people have smartphones. They can use WhatsApp to communicate without racking up SMS charges.

3. You can call any WhatsApp user for free by saving their contact number. It supports both audio and video calls for this purpose.

From ways to make chatting easier to advice for better securing your WhatsApp account, here are latest year 2023 tips and tricks you can use right now.

 

What Are the Hidden Features of WhatsApp?

Lesser known WhatsApp features include the ability to format your texts with italics, bold and strikethrough; pinning your favourite chats; sending temporary messages and turning off blue ticks for more privacy

How Can I Make My WhatsApp More Attractive?

You can customize your WhatsApp to be more aesthetically pleasing by changing the wallpaper, altering text size and choosing between light and dark theme for the interface.

 

How Do I Style Text on WhatsApp?

Select the text you wish to style and choose between the options that appear. You can choose between bold, italic, strike-through and monospace.

 

How Can You Tell if Someone Has Read Your WhatsApp Without Blue Ticks?

WhatsApp does not turn off blue ticks for voice messages. You can send the recipient a voice rec and see if they view it. This can tell you whether or not they’ve opened your messages.

 

1. Send Disappearing Messages

Disappearing messages automatically delete themselves after a certain period of time. That way, you won’t have to worry about your message being saved or forwarded without your knowledge.

WhatsApp gives you the option of having messages disappear after 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days. You can turn it on for specific conversations with anyone you choose. Keep in mind though that the preview of the message will remain viewable in the notifications panel until you open the app, even if the time lapses for the message period.

To turn on disappearing messages, follow these steps:

Open the WhatsApp chat you want to use disappearing messages on.

Click on the contact’s name.

Click on “disappearing messages.”

Select your preferred duration.

Alternatively, if you want to enable disappearing messages for all your contacts, you can do this:

Open Settings.

Tap Account, then go to Privacy.

Select Default message timer and then select your preferred duration.

Once enabled, WhatsApp will notify you directly in the chat that the disappearing messages are turned on.

2. Audio or Video Call Your Friends

One of WhatsApp’s most popular features is the free audio and video calls it offers its users. You can call your friends one-on-one or even have group calls of up to 32 participants on WhatsApp.

To do this, open the contact or group you wish to call. In the top-right corner of the action bar, you will see a video call button and an audio call button. Choose which you prefer.

video-vs-audio-call

With a video call, as shown on the left of the picture above, your camera will be on by default and you won’t be able to turn it off. However, you do have the option to reverse the camera should you wish to. With audio calls, the standard WhatsApp wallpaper will be displayed.

You can toggle your mic on and off with both.

 

3. Customize Your Chat Wallpaper

Are you looking to add a prettier aesthetic to your WhatsApp chats? You can change the wallpaper for all your chats, or set specific wallpapers for chats with different people.

You can also choose between dark or light mode wallpapers. On dark mode, you have the option to dim your wallpaper too, so it’s easier on the eyes.

To change the wallpaper across all chats, follow these steps:

Tap the three vertical dots that indicate more options and click on “settings.”

Then click on “chats” and then “wallpaper.”

Here, you can alter the wallpaper dimming level to your preference.

To change the wallpaper altogether, click “change.”

You can choose from WhatsApp’s templates of bright, dark or solid colors or choose one from your photos. You can also opt for WhatsApp’s default wallpaper.

Click “set wallpaper.”

chat wallpaper

If you want to change the wallpaper for a specific chat, these are the instructions:

Open the chat you want to customize the wallpaper for.

Tap the three vertical dots that indicate more options and then click on” wallpaper.”

Alter the wallpaper dimming level to your preference.

Click “change” to update the wallpaper picture and choose from WhatsApp’s categories or your own image.

Tap “set wallpaper.”

 

4. Change Your Privacy Settings

When you first install the app, WhatsApp’s default settings allow any user to see when you were last online, your about information and profile picture and whether you have read receipts enabled. Only your contacts will be able to see your status updates, but anyone can add you to groups.

To change these privacy options, go to your settings page. This may vary depending on device.

On Android, tap the three vertical dots that indicate more options. Then click on “settings,” then “account,” then “privacy.”

On iPhone, you can directly tap “settings,” “account,” then “privacy.”

On desktop devices, you have to tap the menu symbol, “settings,” then “privacy.”

privacy

From this menu, you can directly update:

Your “last seen,” which displays when you were last on the app

Your profile photo

Your “about” information

Your status

Disappearing messages default timer

Who can add you to groups

Your live location sharing

You can also manage your blocked contacts, enable fingerprint lock, and enable or disable read receipts.

Keep in mind that:

You won’t be able to view others’ “last seen” unless yours is enabled.

You can’t view read receipts for messages you send if either you or the other party has read receipts turned off.

The status of ‘online’ and ‘typing’ is always visible and cannot be changed.

 

5. Keep Track of Your Data and Storage Usage

Keeping track of how much data you’re consuming can be useful, especially if you’re using WhatsApp as part of a limited mobile data plan.

You may also find your phone filling up and want to reduce the amount of storage WhatsApp takes up. The WhatsApp data report can show you how much data the app is consuming at a glance.

network usage report

All you have to do is go to settings and click “storage and data.” From here, you’ll have the option to:

 

Manage storage

View your network usage

Toggle the “use less data for calls” option on and off

Change your media auto-download settings

Choose media upload quality

If you click on the “network usage” option, you can view a detailed breakdown of your data usage.

 

6. Delete Your WhatsApp Media

 If you want to delete WhatsApp media without deleting the entire app, you can directly go to your phone’s file manager or gallery.

From there, locate your WhatsApp images and WhatsApp video folder and clear out the files you don’t need. For example, on a OnePlus phone, you would see this listed under the app collections in your gallery.

whatsapp gallery

 

7. Turn Off Automatic Media Download

WhatsApp automatically downloads pictures and clips from your chats.

If you open your photo gallery and find it filled with videos and images from WhatsApp that take up a lot of space, manually deleting each one can be a time-consuming chore. A simple hack is to turn off media auto-download and keep WhatsApp media from your gallery altogether.

To do this, navigate to settings and then storage and data. Under the media auto-download section, you’ll be able to change the settings for three modes:

When using mobile data

When connected on WiFi

When roaming

storage-and-data

For all three, you can specify which content you want to download automatically. You can choose to enable this for photos, audio files, videos and documents.

 

8. Bookmark Messages With the Star Icon

If you’re navigating several conversations, you might find yourself easily lost in the sea of text. Thankfully, WhatsApp has a useful feature for starring messages you want to reference or come back to later.

starred messages

Here are the steps to take:

Navigate to the conversation and find the particular message you want to bookmark.

Tap and hold the specific message box and then select any other messages you want to star as well by simply tapping on them.

From the action bar on the top, select the star icon.

You can view your starred messages with a contact anytime by clicking on their contact name and then selecting starred messages.

view starred messages

From here, you can navigate through the whole archive, or use the search bar feature to find the message you want. If you wish to unstar a message, hover over the message, click on the Menu bar and then Unstar message.

 

9. Delete Messages for Everyone (or Just Yourself)

Whether you’re looking to get over some painful memories or simply cleaning up a long line of extensive chats, you can delete all the texts or media you’ve exchanged with someone on your contact list.

There are two approaches to this. You can delete messages for everyone involved in the chat, or delete it just for yourself. For the former, you must delete the message within an hour of sending it. To do this:

Select the message you want to delete.

Click on “options,” then “delete” and “delete for everyone.”

delete messages

You can delete records of your own chats on your phone at any time. This won’t impact the recipient’s chat history. To do this, open the chat in question and: 

Select the message you want to delete.

Click on “options,” then “delete” and “delete for me.”

If you don’t want to manually select and clear a whole conversation, you can directly select the contact’s name from your recent chats list, then click the trash icon on the action bar.

 

10. Search Your Chat History

If you’re ever looking for a specific message from a chat but can’t remember which one and you don’t have it starred, the WhatsApp search feature should be your go-to tool. As long as you can remember a few words from your conversation, it should be relatively easy to find.

You can also find media and documents with this feature.

 

search-chat-history

To search your chat history using a keyword, follow these steps:

Open WhatsApp.

While on the chats screen, click on the search icon.

Insert the keyword(s) you’re looking for.

Tap on the relevant results that show up.

If you want to search for media linked to the keyword, you just have to click on the relevant filter for that. This will streamline the results.

 

11. Search One Chat in Particular

There’s a faster way to find a message if you already know which chat to look in.

search one chat

To do this, follow these instructions:

Open the specific chat.

Tap the three vertical dots that indicate more options and click on “search.”

Enter the relevant keyword.

Use the navigation arrows to go through each result individually.

 

12. Send Messages Through Google Assistant

If you have Google Assistant set up on your Android phone, you can use it to send messages directly on WhatsApp. You don’t even have to open the app yourself — the voice assistant can do it all for you.

google assistant

To activate Google Assistant for WhatsApp, do the following:

Open Google Assistant or say “Hey Google.”

Then say, “Send a message to [contact name].”

Choose WhatsApp from the displayed apps.

Narrate the message you want to send.

Google Assistant will repeat the message back to you. If it’s accurate, say “yes” and the message will be sent.

 

13. Back Up WhatsApp to a Cloud Storage Service

Having backups of all your messages is always a good idea, especially if you’re having important conversations or value the emotional weight of online chats. WhatsApp can back up both chats and media files to your preferred cloud storage device.

whatsapp backup

iOS users can backup their chats to iCloud. Android users have the option to back up to Google Drive. The steps are pretty much the same on both platforms.

Go to settings.

Go to chat, then chat backup.

Ensure your Google Drive account or iCloud account is linked.

Enable auto backup and choose the backup frequency.

whatsapp backup frequency

Alternatively, you can do manual backups at any time on both platforms by going to settings, then the chats menu, chat backup and finally back up now.

 

14. Turn Off Read Receipts

Read receipts inform you, and the other recipient, when a message has been seen. One gray tick indicates the message has been sent but not received on the recipient’s device. Two gray ticks means it’s been delivered but not seen yet. Two blue ticks mean the message has been read.

If you want more privacy, you can turn off read receipts so that your contacts don’t know when you read their messages. If you do this, even the messages you read will appear as unread messages and will stay on two gray ticks (but be aware that this works both ways). However, keep in mind this only works with individual chats and does not apply to group chats or play receipts for voice messages.

Here’s how to turn off read receipts:

Go to settings.

Click on “account,” then “privacy.”

From here, toggle read receipts on or off.

read receipts

Be wary of using third-party apps for this. There are several available that market themselves with this function, such as Unseen and Private Read, but you can’t be too sure of your privacy with these apps.

FINAL :

WhatsApp App is one of the world’s favorite messaging apps. The app’s popularity is easy to understand — it’s convenient, secure and free. But many people don’t know that it can do much more than just send text messages. Hopefully, this article will help you explore other dimensions of WhatsApp.

How often do you use WhatsApp? What are your favorite WhatsApp tricks from this list, or are there any that we missed out on? Let us know in the comments.

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