The WhatsApp communication platform is today one of the most popular mobile messengers on the market. It allows its users to share photos, individual and group chat and video calls. Now let’s take a look at tips on some of WhatsApp’s features you may not have known about.
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- # 1 Bold, italics and strikethrough
- # 2 Pin a WhatsApp chat
- # 3 Mark important messages
- # 4 Use of mobile data and phone storage
- # 5 Monitor the delivery status of WhatsApp messages
- # 6 How to mark a message as unread
- # 7 Quick reply in group chat
- # 8 Private messages from a group conversation
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# 1 Bold, italics and strikethrough
In longer reports, one disappears quite quickly. WhatsApp allows you to use several typefaces, well known from text editors . To apply them, it is enough to add special characters to the content of the message, thanks to which the classic font becomes bold, strikethrough, or written in italics. For bold, a combination of asterisks and text (* Bold *), for italics an underscore (_Cursive_), and for strikethrough, a tilde symbol (~ Striked ~). Individual sections can also be combined side by side .
# 2 Pin a WhatsApp chat
A large number of chats can often be confusing . If you do not want to discuss them when searching for specific information, it may be quite useful to pin to the first position in the listing. Just hold the chat for a moment and click on the pin icon at the top of the screen. The conversation thus remains clearly at hand.
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# 3 Mark important messages
As with entire conversations, WhatsApp also has the ability to pin specific messages . In a given chat, just hold the selected message for a while and click on the star icon in the top bar. Messages marked this way are displayed on the main page of the application, below the three dots icon, in the “Messages with an asterisk” menu. This makes it easy to get to the messages you want to work with in the future, such as when arranging a date and time for a meeting.
# 4 Use of mobile data and phone storage
To save on mobile data consumption , the application allows you to limit the download of attached media . You can choose whether you want to download only photos or include videos over the Internet on your mobile phone. You can set the same rules for WiFi and roaming. You can find these options in the settings in the “Data and storage usage” section. If you’re bothered by automatically saving shared files to your phone, you can turn it off again in settings. This option is hidden under the “Cottages” option. All multimedia will then be available only within that conversation.
# 5 Monitor the delivery status of WhatsApp messages
A typical feature of various messengers is the ability to find out if your message has been delivered and read by the recipient . With a long “radio noise”, you can easily find out if the person is ignoring you or just not with his device. In WhatsApp you have the option to find this information by holding the message, opening the options in the upper right corner and selecting “Info”. The application lists information not only about the date and time of delivery , but also the reading of the message.
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# 6 How to mark a message as unread
On the other hand, the communicator also offers the option of marking the message as unread. To do so, just mark the conversation by holding it down and select “Mark as unread” below the three-dot icon. In this case, only the date and time of delivery would appear in the message information .
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# 7 Quick reply in group chat
Group conversations can quickly become one big mess. Users write over each other here and it is difficult to find out who actually belonged to a certain reaction. WhatsApp, like Messenger, allows you to respond to a specific message by swiping . Just swipe right with it and the response will be displayed as part of the previous context.
# 8 Private messages from a group conversation
In large-scale group debates, smaller offshoots are often emerging. If you want to tell something to a member privately , just hold down the message written by him and select the option “Reply privately” in the menu of three dots . Communication will thus move from the public sector to the private one.
WhatsApp has integrated a number of other features , which we wrote about in previous articles. Among the newest ones is the locking of conversations , while you can access their content only after using a fingerprint reader or face recognition.
