Top 5 WhatsApp hacks that will make your life easy!

Discover Top 5 WhatsApp hacks you probably don’t know…

Mustufa Ansari
4 min readNov 5, 2020

We are so used to using WhatsApp to communicate that it is difficult to remember what life was like before the app existed.

The various features, ease of use and, of course, the effectiveness in receiving messages are some points that make people give up traditional calls and SMS to communicate with more practicality via WhatsApp. After all, you just need to type a quick message, send and go back to what you were doing, without having to hold the phone to your ear or be in doubt whether or not the person received your message.

WhatsApp is a real success, used all the time by people of all ages, but there are some very useful “tricks” that end up going unnoticed in everyday life. To help you make better use of your WhatsApp, we have listed 5 hacks and will show you how to use them in your app, check out:

1) Save messages as favourites

This feature is of great help when you want to save an important message to view later, for example, an address, a contact, someone’s personal data, etc. Favourite messages are a perfect resource for those who participate in various groups on WhatsApp, here’s the hack.

HOW TO DO?

· Find the message you want to favour;

· Press your finger up until a menu appears;

· Click on the little star on the left, and you’re done;

· To see the message, just go to “Settings” and click on “Scheduled Messages”.

2) Disable “Last seen”

If you need a little more privacy and don’t want your contacts to know when you last saw WhatsApp, just disable the “Last seen” feature. This prevents people from questioning when you take too long to respond.

HOW TO DO?

· Click on “Settings”;

· Then click on “Account” and “Privacy”;

· Then, choose “Last Seen and then select the option “Nobody”;

Ready!

Remember, you won’t be able to see the last time your contacts opened WhatsApp either. privacy applies to everyone!

3) Share your location

One of the most useful features of WhatsApp is being able to share your location with your contacts. This eliminates the problem of getting lost from your friends on a trip or at a party for example, in addition to helping a lot in those situations where you do not know the address of the place, but you need someone to get to where you are.

HOW TO DO?

· Open the contact or group you want to share your location with;

· Then click on the clip located in the lower right corner, as if you were attaching a file;

· Click on “Location” and then on “Send your current location”;

If you prefer, you can also send the addresses of nearby places that are already registered, just click on the top and ready.

4) Know the date and time that your message was read

If only the blue signs are not enough and you want to know exactly the date and time that a contact read your message, know that yes, there is away. But remember that in order to have access to this information you cannot have disabled the reading receipt.

HOW TO DO?

· Touch and hold the message you want to know when it was read;

· Then, with the message selected, click on the information icon;

Ready! There you can see exactly the date and time the message was delivered and read by the person.

5) Add a different touch to conversations

WhatsApp allows you to add personalized ringtones for each of your conversations, so you already identify who is sending a message before you even pick up your phone. A good hack for those who don’t want to miss any message:

HOW TO DO?

· Join the conversation or group you want to personalize;

· Then click on the name of the group or contact;

· Go to “Personalized notifications” and select “Personalize;

· Choose the ringtone, the vibration and, if you want, configure the type of light and notification.

Ready!

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Mustufa Ansari

📱Android/iOS Developer 🖋️ I Write For Mobile Developers 🎓 Tech Enthusiast