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5 Ultimate WhatsApp Tricks that Every User Ought to Know

Facebook owned WhatsApp Messenger, founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton is a free software application which allows cross-platform messaging and Voice Over IP (VoIP) service. It also allows its users to send messages, share photos, videos and other media files over Internet and make voice and video calls without any extra charge.
Today WhatsApp has crept into every important work done by an individual. Whether it be a help in one's business or studies. Infact, Whatsapp has launched a separate app for business purposes, that is, WhatsApp Business. WhatsApp also provides a feature for its users to put up text, photos or 30 seconds videos for a time limit of 24 hours visible to only their contacts, in the form of status.
With over 5,000,000,000+ downloads worldwide, WhatsApp is used widely by students, teachers, workmen, business men etc. One of the biggest reason for this is that because it is almost the only established messenger or social networking application which comes with no ads benefit. As Facebook has acquired WhatsApp, their are very much chances that Facebook will start the service of ads in WhatsApp too.

Features of WhatsApp

When talking about WhatsApp's features, there are tons of them, which is also a reason why WhatsApp is so famous. The most important ones are -

  • Voice and video calling

    • WhatsApp provides an amazing feature of free voice and video calling through Voice Over IP (VoIP). If you have a good internet connection then the quality of the calls made through WhatsApp are superb.

  • Almost all kind of medias can be shared

    • This is one of the most famous feature offered by WhatsApp. You can share almost anything using WhatsApp. Whether it be any document, photo, video, audio etc. You can even share your location using WhatsApp.

  • Status sharing feature

    • You can express your feelings through text, photos and videos by using the status feature. The status that you put is only for a time limit of 24 hours. During that time if you feel to delete your status, you can do that too.

  • Group and Personal chating

    • You can chat personally or create a group and chat with a number of people at once. Group creating feature is extremely beneficial for students, teachers, employees of a particular company etc.

Hidden features of WhatsApp

As mentioned earlier, WhatsApp provides tons of features to its users. Some features are widely used by users while some remain hidden. These features are not really hidden but the thing is that most of the users don't pay attention to these features which may be helpful to them in many ways. So, in this post we will discuss some of these features which are of a great use for all WhatsApp users.

  1. Dark Mode

    It is the latest feature which WhatsApp has provided in its latest version. All the famous application company had already come with the dark mode of their respective apps. The dark mode lovers are already loving this feature.
    Path for accessing dark mode:WhatsApp>Options>Settings>Chats>Theme>Dark

  2. Personal info like last seen, profile photo and info about the user visibility

    Most of the users are unaware that they can manage who all can see their personal info like last seen, profile photo or info about them. This feature is extremely useful for people who use WhatsApp for commercial purposes as they have thousands of contacts which make it necessary to filter whom they want to let see their personal info.
    Path for managing personal info visibility:WhatsApp>Options>Settings>Account>Privacy

  3. Status Privacy

    It is an extremely important feature of WhatsApp. There are times when you want to put up photos or other media on you status which you want to show to some of your contacts but don't want to show to some of them. In that case, it helps you to put up whatever you want.
    Path for managing the contacts who can view your status:Status>Options>Status privacy

  4. WhatsApp Web

    This feature of WhatsApp is super helpful at times. This feature helps you to use WhatsApp on your PC or laptop. There are times when you want your WhatsApp content on computer. In that case, instead of sending all your content to your PC you can use this feature and pen your WhatsApp account on your computer and download the appropriate content on your computer.
    Path for accessing WhatsApp Web:
    Open WhatsApp with your account logged in on your phone. Click on the options button on the top right corner and select the WhatsApp Web option. A QR scanner will appear on your mobile screen. Keep your phone aside for a few minutes.
    Open any web browser on your computer, and type web.whatsapp.com in the search box and press the enter button. Now pick up your phone and with the QR scanner on your phone, scan the QR code on your computer's screen. Your WhatsApp account will open on your computer.

  5. Creating new broadcast

    Nearly all WhatsApp users are aware of the feature of creating WhatsApp groups and are actively using it, but only some know what are WhatsApp broadcasts and how to create them.
    WhatsApp groups and broadcasts creation processes are similar but their functions are different. The function of broadcast is really simple to understand. When you create any WhatsApp broadcast, the panel will be similar to that of WhatsApp group. But when you send any message in a broadcast the message will be sent to the members personally as if sent to them on their personal chat and they'll not get to know that they are a part of any broadcast. This feature is really helpful as groups get annoying at times with unnecessary messages poping up.
    Path for accessing WhatsApp Broadcast feature:WhatsApp>Options>New broadcast>Select member contacts for the broadcast>Click on the green coloured tick button>New WhatsApp group is created
Facebook is now thinking of launching WhatsApp Pay feature which will also allow users to transact using the WhatsApp app itself.
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