This WhatsApp tips and tricks can help you

This WhatsApp tips and tricks can help you

The most popular Messenger has over a billion users WhatsApp. At this point, you will find all the tips and tricks to old features, and we'll keep you up to date with updates on new WhatsApp features. When you're done with this article, you are the WhatsApp professionals!

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Take part in the beta
Reports on spam
Deletes old material from the chat history
Formatted text in messages
Hide your information
Tagged chat back as unread
Respond faster with popups
Favors news and pictures
Dictated WhatsApp messages with Google
Secures your WhatsApp data in Google drive
WhatsApp messages answered quickly on your PC
Discrete listening voicemails
Exported chats as E-Mail
All images and files
WhatsApp uses without a SIM card
Restores deleted messages
Will temporarily mute chat
Sends same message to many
Puts your favorite chats on the homescreen
Gets first new features in the WhatsApp-beta program

If you want to have the next version of Messenger before the official update releases, you can have them before with the beta program by WhatsApp. Also this version is officially updated the play store. Consider the following steps:

Reports here on the official play store website whatsapp for the beta program you.
"Tester be" then click on the selection.
Update your WhatsApp app play store.
Rejects spammers

Since may 2016, you can block messages from unknown numbers in WhatsApp and register it as spam. Immediately upon receipt of a message from an unknown number, the option appears. Too many complaints to the relevant number for Whatsapp spin up, that is excluded from the service.

The WhatsApp support message says that: "your phone number is no longer approved for use whatsapp. Contact support for assistance."
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You unknown numbers can you block and report as spam. / © AndroidPIT
Cleans up the chat history

Delete the chat history option can purge three stages the history you in the individual chats. For the selection, delete the entire chat history, or messages that are older than 30 days or 6 months. The logs are only on your device and on the server nor your contacts deleted.

Formatted text in WhatsApp

Since March, 2016, it is possible to write sentences or words both bold and italic in WhatsApp. For something to be bold, you have to believe before the word or phrase in the Markdown-style star: * bold words *. An italic typeface it uses underscores: _ slanted Wörter_. Of course * is also _A Kombination_ *.

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Only in the editor by WhatsApp, you realize the formatting marks. In the chat window, then lands the ready formatted text. / © ANDROIDPIT
Hide profile picture, status, last online and disabled blue hook into WhatsApp

If you're in public group chats should hide your image, status, and most recently online.

Go to settings > account > privacy.
Here you can specify whether "Anyone", "Nobody" or just "my contacts" see something.
Tagged WhatsApp messages subsequently as unread

You have received a long WhatsApp message, viewed, could but still not read? The whole chat as unread marks, later to remind you. However, note that the conversation marked as unread, not when the sender will appear as unread. Should you have enabled the blue hook so the sender believes the message continues to read.

You can mark a WhatsApp message as unread by you in the main window long on the sender types and marks his last message in the window that opens. A green dot indicates you are here unread messages.

Answered messages faster with popups

Thanks to the so-called pop up notifications, you get notification immediately when a friend writes you. So you can answer him immediately.

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Enable pop-ups and remains up to date. / © ANDROIDPIT
The pop ups wake up your smartphone even from standby, if you wish. If someone sends you a message, the message and a response area will be shown immediately.

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The pop-up arouses your smartphone from stand-by. / © ANDROIDPIT
Favors WhatsApp messages

Stores funny news, pictures or important information as Favorites. Under star marked can be found again faster these messages. So you will find the best jokes, best pictures and most important moments at a glance.

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The bookmark of news is in the Beta 2.12.338 whatsapp and ensures good visibility. / © ANDROIDPIT
Uses WhatsApp using voice commands

Use Google voice commands? Then you can control also WhatsApp. The voice command "OK Google" followed by "Send Paul a WhatsApp" or "Send a WhatsApp to Paul" opens a message dialog. Then you dictated the message. If everything is correctly detected, you confirmed the shipment with a 'yes'.

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You? Just speak up via WhatsApp messages. / © ANDROIDPIT
Makes a backup of WhatsApp with Google drive

Her plans the purchase of a new Android smartphones in the near future, want this but lose not your WhatsApp chats? Then, you can save all chats and shared media such as photos and videos easily in Google drive WhatsApp settings. There are the following requirements:

An activated account on your Smartphone
Google play services by Google play on the Smartphone installed (from Android 2.3.4 available)
Enough free disk space on Google drive
Enough space on the Smartphone store for a backup
The recovery automatically during Setup on the new phone. The new smartphone, WhatsApp searches for backups in your Google account. Make sure to grant the necessary permissions to WhatsApp, because otherwise the restore of your chats will fail. The WhatsApp FAQ you will find all solutions.

If you prefer offline backs up your data, we recommend a look in our separate instructions:

WhatsApp for Android: easily transfer chats to your new smartphone
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Backups can be stored in WhatsApp in Google drive finally. / © ANDROIDPIT
Answered WhatsApp messages to the PC

With the additional app Pushbullet you can answer WhatsApp messages on the PC. The service can be more easily and on more devices at the same time set up a WhatsApp Web. The app to your Smartphone and in the browser of your PC, dm tablet, an other PC and still more devices sets up and distributes messages, text, files and links back and forth.

Pushbullet - SMS on PC
Install on Google play
Quietly listening to voice messages

Voice message in WhatsApp you not listen to, that everyone is listening. So that this doesn't happen, presses her on play and hold the Smartphone to the ear. So the large loudspeaker is deactivated and only you can hear the message only softly on the ears, such as a phone call.

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Keep WhatsApp to your ear so that the voice messages are played softly. / © ANDROIDPIT
Exports the entire conversation as E-Mail

Send a WhatsApp entertainment with all messages via E-Mail, you go like: longer tap the desired contact in the conversation list and "Send chat e-mail" selects. The chat history is automatically added as an E-Mail attachment. If you want, you can attach all shared media. Ideal if you want to send the data to a friend if he used no WhatsApp.

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Send your friends the complete WhatsApp log as email. / © ANDROIDPIT
Calls all the sent and received media

To invoke all pictures and videos that you have exchanged with a contact, you must you not only cumbersome foraging in the file manager. Simply type in your chat history on the menu button and media controls, then you can see all pictures and videos. Note: MP3 songs but not stored there also, the sent voice messages. This can be found directly in the WhatsApp folder under media > WhatsApp voice notes sorted by date.

WhatsApp uses without a SIM card

WhatsApp can be used with a trick even without SIM card and mobile number in the Wi-Fi network. To do this, you can register, for example, a fixed-line number. The confirmation code will be sent via SMS to actually, but after about five minutes you can be also can share with the code. Simply enter the code and already, WhatsApp can be used on a device without a SIM card. The number can be used only for just a WhatsApp account however as well as mobile phones.

Instructions: So your WhatsApp number used
That is the reverse, that WhatsApp needs no physical connection to the SIM card with the registered number. Should so even on holiday the SIM card switch you, WhatsApp will turn no knitting you this: her chats just continued under the old name. Only when a new activation, your old number for the verification code must be accessible. Otherwise, you must change the number with the Wizard built into WhatsApp and inform your new number to your contacts via broadcast.

Restores deleted chat history

If you have accidentally deleted your chat histories, there is an easy way to restore them. To do this, you must uninstall only WhatsApp and then tap after the registration with the question after the restoration of your chat history restore. WhatsApp namely creates a backup, which is stored on the Smartphone in the background automatically every 24 hours. You will start before such a backup and delete chat history recovery, you'll come to the old stand. In the meantime created chat histories are overwritten by the old backup however.

Mutes contacts and groups

You have a contact that you want nothing? Or a group of WhatsApp bothers you just? Both can mute you temporarily or permanently so that it won't distract you. Tap mute to within the group chats top right the three points then. Selects the period and no notifications are displayed. The Summschalten button behind more hides in individual contacts.

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You can turn off the group chat. / © ANDROIDPIT
Alternatively, selecting multiple chats in the chat area and mutes it. Hold down to the first chat longer, more tip then and taps at the end on the crossed out speaker top right. Finally, you select a duration.

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Scahltget chats at the gobs of muted. / © ANDROIDPIT
Send broadcast messages to many recipients

You want to send a message to multiple recipients without seeing them, who has received them yet? For the purpose, WhatsApp has introduced the broadcast feature.

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Sends same message to many. / © ANDROIDPIT
So you use it:

Tap the settings (the three points above right)
Tap new broadcast
You can enter the name of the intended recipient
Tap create
Write your message and send them off
Create home screen shortcuts to the favorite contacts

Are you friends or groups that frequently writes her? She pushes directly on the homescreen and saves time.

Tap the area chat in WhatsApp
Select the contact and hold him
Now type in the Pop-Up window add chat link
Now, a shortcut in the form of the profile image of the contact is placed on your home screen, from which you can jump in the future directly into your WhatsApp chat.

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