Here are ten things you may not know you can do:
1. Bold, italics, strikethrough
For bold, add (*) to the beginning and end of the word
For italics, add (_) to the beginning and end of the word
For strikethrough, add (~) to the beginning and end of the word
2. You can change your friend’s profile picture to a monkey
-Go to contacts and copy your friend’s number.
-Rename the monkey image your friend’s number, taking out the (+).
-Paste the image to his/her WhatsApp profile picture, and voila, your friend is now a monkey!
3. Blue-ticks-no-more
-Open WhatsApp
-Go to settings, account and then privacy
-Un-check the ‘read receipts.’
Unfortunately, this means you can’t see when people have read your messages, either.
4. Tricking the blue tick
-When you’ve received a message, turn on Airplane Mode.
-Open the message.
-Read it in secret.
-The sender won’t see the blue ticks until you open WhatsApp again!
5. Saving your chat history
-Got to settings, chats, and chat backup
-Configure your chat settings so that the backup frequency is either weekly or monthly, and tick ‘include videos’ if you want to
6. Sending a giant heart
-This one has been around for a while, but it’s still a nice reminder.
-Find the heart emoji
-Send it without anything else
7. Transfer files between your computer and your phone
-Create a group, add a friend and then delete them (so you’re in a group with yourself)
-Open WhatsApp Web and login by scanning the QR code
-Send the media you want to transfer to your computer through the WhatsApp group
-Open the chat on the computer and the media is there!
8. Custom notification rings for different chats
-Go on the chat you want
-Tap on the name
-Enable the ‘custom notifications’ option
-Pick the tone you want
9. See someone’s Last Seen and hide yours
-Send one message to the person of your choice
-Delete said person from your contact list
-The chat will still be in the app
-Go to settings, account and then privacy and change the `last seen` preferences to My Contacts
10. Change your WhatsApp wallpaper
-Go to settings, chats and wallpaper!
