Six secret and useful WhatsApp chips that few know about
The design of the WhatsApp messenger has not changed for many years, but the functionality of the service has grown significantly during its existence and has been enriched by useful opportunities that few people know about. How to protect your correspondence, save important messages, correct typing and get new features in WhatsApp before all — in
Password Correspondence
In mid-May, WhatsApp announced a new feature called « Chat Closure ». It will allow users to hide dialogs in a special folder that will be password protected and fingerprint.
According to the official blog of the company, the innovation is designed to enhance the confidentiality of especially important personal communication. In addition, messages from closed chat will not be displayed in notifications on the device screen.
In order to use the « Chat Closing » function, you must select the desired dialog and click on the name of the interlocutor or group name. Then you need to activate the corresponding item in the settings. To access hidden chats, you will need to enter a phone password or scan biometric data. In the future, they promise to provide the ability to create a password that differs from that used to unlock the smartphone itself.
This function can come in handy if you transferred your device to someone else and do not want it to be able to see your personal messages.
The « Chat Closing » function gradually extends to all devices. In the near future, developers also plan to add the possibility of closing the chats on related devices and creating a unique password for accessing correspondence.
WhatsApp protected
Some smartphones have a password protection system and biometric data. Using the capabilities of the device itself, you can protect the messenger, browser and other applications in which personal data is available. If your smartphone does not provide such an opportunity, but you want to protect WhatsApp from prying eyes, just go to the settings of the messenger — « Confidentiality » and find the section « Finger lock » at the very bottom of the list.
In the same section, you can set the time for automatically locking the application, after which it will be impossible to open it without biometric confirmation. But in this case, you can’t protect incoming calls — anyone can answer them.
Correspondence with oneself
Few people think about it, but sending a message to yourself — is a very useful function that can be used to create notes or store important messages.
Chat looks and works with itself the same as regular chat, but does not support audio and video calls, the ability to turn off notifications, block or send complaints. Also in it you can not see the time of the last visit and the status « on the network ».
To write yourself the first letter, you must click on the round button of the beginning of the dialog in the lower right corner of the screen ( on Android ) or on the button with a pencil in the upper right corner ( on the iPhone ). The first contact on the list will be you — to this will indicate the number and receipt in brackets » ( You ) ».
One account for four devices
For a long time, WhatsApp users criticized the messenger for the impossibility of connecting one account on several devices. Everything that was available — to link the profile from the smartphone with the application or web version on the PC, and also with the condition that the smartphone should be connected to the network.
Now these times have passed, and one account can be connected to four devices, for example, to a computer, laptop, second smartphone, tablet — total five devices on which one profile can stand.
Moreover, for using WhatsApp on one of the gadgets, it is not necessary that « the main » be connected to the network.
To bind a new device, you must click on three points in the upper right corner of ( on Android ) or go to the ( settings on the iPhone ), select the « Device binding » section and scan the QR code from the main device.
Chat with a stranger
One of the most important inconveniences in WhatsApp — the inability to write to anyone without adding it to the contacts. In any case, many users of the messenger think so. However, WhatsApp has a hidden chip to circumvent this limitation.
So, in order not to clutter the list of contacts, just drive into the address bar of the browser: « wa.me/7*** », where * — user's phone number.
In the same way, for example, you can share your « WhatsApp business card » by saving your own number in this format.
This was already in Telegram
WhatsApp has long had a message deletion function, but the ability to change the sent message is not yet possible — in any case in a stable assembly of the messenger. However, if you become a beta tester, then exclusive and secret chips open for users, which, as a rule, reach « ordinary » users for a very long time.
So, for example, now you can edit the sent messages by downloading the beta version of WhatsApp for Android. To correct the error or supplement the sent letter, just click on the message, click on three points in the upper right corner and select « Change ». After all, you need to click.
It is important to consider that only 15 minutes are given to change the message, as well as the fact that your interlocutor will see a receipt for editing the message.
You can only change the text message — if a media file is attached to the text, then it will be impossible to edit it.
How to download WhatsApp Beta
Among users, there is an opinion that beta versions work with errors. This is not so — in any case, the beta versions of WhatsApp work no worse than the so-called stable assembly. In this case, users are available new functions a few months before they get to « regular » versions.
To download the beta version of WhatsApp on Android, you can sign up for testing through the page in Google Play, but the easiest way to go to the proven TechSpot portal and drive the corresponding request into the search, download the APK file from there and simply install the application on top of the existing one. All user files will remain intact
In the case of the iPhone, it’s a little more complicated — while Android users can manually download the application, Apple smartphone owners have to participate in the official Test Program Test Flight. Its set is limited, which is why it is rather difficult to get into the messenger testers.
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