The company was acquired by Facebook, and the messaging app is completely free to use. WhatsApp developers had initially released the phone number-based messaging app for simple communication; however, it took to the internet like a storm. The popularity of the free messaging app has got the developers to keep upgrading more and more features on WhatsApp.
However, though the features are slowly coming into existence (compared to other popular apps who already have many of them included), on WhatsApp. Though users could say that other apps were already ahead of WhatsApp, a slow implementation works well in WhatsApp’s favour. First—users get time to learn and use every feature as and when they are released. If you have all features already there, you may not remember half of them at use. And lastly, each feature is rolled out after thoroughly testing for efficiency, data saving and performance.
Until date, WhatsApp has released a lot of features that you can use for messaging. Apart from messaging features, there are several tweaks and tricks that you can do with WhatsApp. We have put together almost all the 40 features, tips and tricks that users could use with WhatsApp to become a WhatsApp jockey.
40 whatsapp tricks
1. Send a single message to multiple people at once
Broadcasting a single message to multiple people at once is possible. Simply click on the menu (three dot ellipse) and select ‘New broadcast’. You will get an option to send the same message to multiple people by adding the contacts in the recipient list. Click on the ‘+’ sign on the right and select the names from your contact list.
2. Format your text
You can now send messages in bold, italics or strikethrough too. Simply use the special characters before and after the words to get the formatting of your choice. For example, use asterisk for bold (*hello*), underscore for italics (_hello_) and tilde for strikethrough (~hello~).
3. Find out who you chat with a lot
If you want to know who you are chatting too much with on WhatsApp, you can find out by simply scrolling through the chat screen. However, if you have cleared out the messages or if they are too many, it will be difficult to find out easily. For this, head to the settings and click on ‘Settings’, then ‘Account’ and then ‘Storage Usage’. Here you will find a list of contacts you are presently chatting with and if you tap anyone, you can find out how much of data you have sent or received during all chats. Now you can probably find out who is your good pal. This feature is available only on iPhone for now.
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