WhatsApp: 22 Tips, tricks and hidden features

Associate a chat directly on the home screen, send a message to many recipients subtly or switch to a new phone number: Some useful features have WhatsApp well hidden. The following tips and tricks you will bring more of the Messenger.

20 + Best whats app tips and tricks

A message to many recipients - without group

There are messages that you want to tell many people (birth of first child, New Year's greetings and the like), but own WhatsApp group is not appropriate for it. Most recipients will be rather annoyed that they were added without being asked. The more elegant alternative is to broadcast list. On Android you'll find it in the overflow menu under "New Broadcast".

On iOS, you can find the tab "Chats" in the top left, select "Broadcast List" and can create for a click on such a list.

Chats Send e-mail

On Android, there are two ways a complete chat to send via e-mail: Either you hold the entry in the chat Overview pressed and selects the appearing pop-up menu "Chat via e-mail" from. Or you find yourself directly in the chat, open the menu, click on "More" and then select "Chat via e-mail" from. Subsequently a new message opens in your choice email client with the chat as a text file in the attachment.

On the iPhone you touch the name of the chat partner and choose "Chat Email" from. Then you shall yet clear whether the photos, videos and other shared media to be sent or not.

Link to a chat on your homescreen

If you often chats with a person or a group, it may worthwhile to link this conversation directly on the homescreen. So you can call them directly and do not need only look in the app. On Android you can do it on the conversation menu. Clicking this then in the settings on "Add link" "More" and on. Finished!

Change wallpaper of chats

You can spice up the background of chats with your own pictures. For this you go Android in the Settings and tap on "background". To select your own picture you go into "documents" or download via "WhatsApp" a package of wallpapers from the Play Store. "Standard" and "no image" are self-explanatory.

On iOS, the corresponding menu item is hidden one level deeper: Available on iPhone you go into Settings, then select "Chat Settings" and there you will find point "chat background". My Pictures can be found under "Photos" and "backgrounds" some pre-installed images.

Let all media show to chat

In long talks can ever lose track. Since it is convenient that you WhatsApp displays collected on request all media to a chat. Is this under Android in the menu with the settings and click on "Media". On the iPhone you typed in the name of your chat partner and chooses "Show all media" from - or wipes in the chat Overview from left to right on the picture of your contact or group chats. Then open in all cases an overview of sent and received pictures and videos.

Chats secure manual and automatic and recover deleted conversations

Under Android WhatsApp leads every 24 hours by a local backup. Deletes your accidentally chat, this is with a bit of luck in the backup. To answer this question you have to uninstall the app and reinstall it. Then loads the existing backup. A guarantee does not exist for this, however. The date of the last backup you see in the Settings app under the "Chat Settings" in point "backup chat history". There you can also manually create a backup.

iPhone users are here in a much better situation. The iOS version of WhatsApp stores backups on demand in your iCloud. For this you must of course enable Apple's cloud service on your device and then in WhatsApp under Settings -> Chat-Backup -> Chat settings enable, where you can also manually create a backup, automatic backup.

Forward pictures and videos from a chat

Photos and videos from a WhatsApp entertainment can be easily sent to another chat or even with other apps. Hold this finger pressed on the appropriate file to open the pop-up menu. Click on the "Share" icon and selects WhatsApp or another app for forwarding.

Forward messages

You can pass with WhatsApp even entire messages. Keep this the message you want pushed. A bar at the top with various options appear under Android. The arrow is the symbol for forwarding and lead you to your WhatsApp contacts, from which you select one. On iOS directly appear the menu item "Forward", from there you can transfer the chat not only within WhatsApp, but also about other services. In both systems, you can select each more than a message for forwarding.

Send your location via WhatsApp

If you can not describe in a few words, if ye is just, then should your your chat partner rather directly send your location. On Android you click on the paperclip icon and select "Location". You can connect the determined by GPS coordinates or an entry from the database, such as a restaurant, send. On iOS, you come to the "Send Location" function by your tap on the arrow icon next to the text input field. If the GPS is active, "send your location" is available for selection.

Block contacts and release

Blocks your contact at WhatsApp, you shows the chat app which news no longer. Your Opposite learns nothing from the lockout, but could make sense of it, because his message is no longer displayed as read - permanently. On Android you go this menu "More" and then on "Block". In the Contact index blocked usernames appear slightly gray and can be released again. Simply hold your finger on the item until the menu appears. An overview can be found under Settings -> Account -> Privacy -> Blocked contacts . Here you can also equal a whole bunch of disturbing people enter.

On the iPhone you can chat in each top left click directly on "block", but only if the person is not already in your address book. Do you want to put more contacts to list manually, so you go under in the iOS Settings app on the "Account", "Privacy" and "Blocks". To remove you have to "edit" the list by your wipes the entry to the site and select from the appearing options desired.

Search in chat

WhatsApp has a search function. In the Android version you will find it in the settings of the chat under "Search" button. But searches only the messages displayed. For longer chats must reload your older messages so that they show up in the results. To browse on the iPhone your calls, you must in the chat Overview making a swipe gesture down. The search window shows both results to from your contact list as well as the content of the chats.

Change Phone Number

Did you get a new phone number, you have your old WhatsApp account not delete and create a new, but can change in your existing user account, the telephone number. Is this in the menu of the app in the "Settings", then on "Account" and then "Change number" and follow the instructions there.

Chat with WhatsApp in Web Browser

With WhatsApp website you can also chat in the browser - at least if you use the Android version of the app. In the iOS version, the feature is not available - according to the requirements of WhatsApp Apple for the App Store are to blame them. Relevant information on WhatsApp Web you can find in this article .

WhatsApp use on PC and Mac

Using the browser extension ARC Welder you can every Android app install a Chrome extension - including WhatsApp. So then also iOS users can chat on your computer. However, the user account is no longer linked to the app on your iPhone.

Install WhatsApp on Tablets

Two ways in which you can use on a tablet WhatsApp, we tell you in this article . As solutions Tablet with SIM card slot and a second SIM card as well as a trick with WhatsApp Web offer.

Whatsapp use with fixed-point

You can also WhatsApp with a landline number to use, but are then for your contacts only on this to find and do not have the cell phone number of your phone. Give to the appropriate phone number at the time of registration. Instead of SMS you will receive the confirmation code via an automatic call. WhatsApp can then use the WLAN.

Calls with WhatsApp

With WhatsApp you can now make calls. You can find the appropriate tab on the home screen of the app in addition to chats and contacts. Calls are only possible within the chat app. Users outside can not call itself.

Do not show WhatsApp photos in the Photo Index

The pictures that you get sent via WhatsApp, appear by default in the photo gallery of iOS and Android. On an iPhone you can prevent the Just Go into the "Settings" and select the menu item "Privacy". Then tap on "Photos" and away WhatsApp from the list of applications whose images are displayed in the general photo stream. This change of settings applies only to new incoming photos. Images that are already in the Photo Stream, you must remove it manually.

On Android, the procedure is more complicated: Using a file explorer app you must locate where WhatsApp photos and / or videos stores the folder. Inside the folder you create a new file named ".nomedia". Thus, the photo app on Android is prevented to search this folder for images.

Hide your online status

If you do not want to see your contacts in WhatsApp, whether you're online or not, then the display switches under Settings -> Account -> Privacy -> Status from. However, you can then no longer see when other users were last online.

Off read receipt

For large eddy the read receipt from Whatsapp provided in the form of the second blue hook behind a message. Under Settings -> Account -> Privacy -> read receipt your switches it off. Then you show the Messenger of no read receipts your contacts more. Exception: In group chats WhatsApp sends always read receipts.

Disable WhatsApp for Smartphone Loss

WhatsApp has no option to disable an account. If you lose your phone and want to prevent foreign access to your Messenger, there is still a way: You can sign up on another phone with the same number. The Messenger can be used with a number of only one device at a time. This web prevents the Finder of the Lost smartphones will have access to your account. Alternatively, you can also go through the account of the service WhatsApp be blocked, need to however this once contact, hoping for a quick processing of the request.

Delete WhatsApp account

Will you WhatsApp definitely turn your back, so you go in the menu in the "Settings" on "Account" and then in the menu item "delete my account". To confirm you have to enter your phone number.