10 WhatsApp Tips and tricks you never knew

The text message is dead! And in its place, long live the more popular, more flexible, more user-friendly - and now entirely free - Whatsapp! But with nothing now standing between you and endless chats, it's time to progress beyond the basics and learn to become a WhatsApp wizard.

Undoubtedly the top messaging platform, WhatsApp today has more than a billion users who are actively sending messages and communicating over voice around the globe. The company was acquired by Facebook, and the messaging app is completely free to use. WhatsApp developers had initially released the phone number-based messaging app for simple communication; however, it took to the internet like a storm. The popularity of the free messaging app has got the developers to keep upgrading more and more features on WhatsApp.

From dodging awkward messages without the guilt to keeping the adult stuff private, while we wait for WhatsApp video calling to drop, here are the WhatsApp tips and tricks that will turn you into a messaging master.

1. Use WhatsApp without your Mobile Number

You can now use your WhatsApp without mobile number but can be used with some other number. This type of feature may help you to easily activate WhatsApp with unknown number i.e., fake number. 

• If you are already using WhatsApp, uninstall it from your device completely. Download and install it again.
• Lock your messaging service simply by changing the flight mode.
• Now open WhatsApp and add your number to it. So it will not be able to send the message to the server it will ask you to choose an alternative method to verify.
• Choose the verify through message option and fill up your email address and then Click on ‘Send’ option and without waiting click on ‘Cancel’. This terminates the authorization process.
• Now, you are required to forge messages. Install the message Spoof text message for Andriod and Fake- a- Message for iPhone.
• Spoofing method: Go to your Outbox -> Copy the message details to spoofer app -> Send it to spoofed verification.
• Use the following details.
  To: +447900347295
  From: +[Country code][mobile number]
  Message: Your email address
• A message will be sent through that spoofed number. You can use this number to connect with your friends

2. Create a Fake Conversation

This trick is going viral these days and many people are creating funny fake conversations and posting the screenshots over social media like Facebook and Google Plus. By using an app like WhatSaid-Whatsapp Prank you can easily create fake conversations and play pranks on your friends.

You will be able to create fake conversations with anyone by adding your photos, name it and create your own posts. This should not used for playing with some ones life and serious problems.

3. Change Friend's Profile Picture

You can now change the profile picture of your friends by using the new and awesome trick to prank your friends. Follow the below mentioned steps

• Choose a profile picture for your friend. Use Google Image search for cute looking monkeys and donkeys or weird looking people.
• Resize the image to 561×561 pixels using Paint or Photoshop and name it with your friend’s mobile phone number.
• Save the image to the SD >> card WhatsApp >> Profile Pictures. Overwrite the existing file (if necessary).
• Disable WiFi and data network. If you don’t WhatsApp will automatically update the picture.

4. Format the Text

You can now send messages in bold, italics or strikethrough too. Simply use the special characters before and after the words to get the formatting of your choice. For example, use asterisk for bold (*hello*), underscore for italics (_hello_) and tilde for strikethrough (~hello~).

ALSO READ : How to send videos as Animated GIFs in Whats app

5. Find who you chat with alot

If you want to know who you are chatting too much with on WhatsApp, you can find out by simply scrolling through the chat screen. However, if you have cleared out the messages or if they are too many, it will be difficult to find out. For this reason, head to the setiings and click on Settings >Account > Storage Usage. Here you will find a list of contacts you are presently chatting with and if you tap anyone, ypu can find out how much of data you have sent or received during all chats. Now you can probably find out who is your good pal. This feature is available on iPhone only for now.

6. Save Data when using WhatsApp with Mobile Networks

If you are roaming, or if you are on a slow or expensive data network, you can choose to reduce your data consumption by selecting what you want to automatically download. You can choose to selectively download video, photo or audio when you are roaming. Additionally, you can also click on ‘Low data usage’ to reduce the amount of data used during a WhatsApp call.

7. Maintain Privacy in WhatsApp Groups

Due to privacy reasons,we would like to hide our profile picture, last seen or status. This type of Hiding option is only available for the latest version of WhatsApp. To hide profile picture,status and last seen go to Settings > Account privacy. Then click on the option which we want to hide, select any of the three options according to your needs – Everyone, My contacts, Nobody.

8. Send files of other Extensions

We all know that WhatsApp doesn’t support to send other files than audio and video formats. There is not any option to share documents, compressed files, and other files using WhatsApp. But with an additional app like Cloud Send you can send PDFs, APKs, Word documents and more using WhatsApp.

You can also use third party app like Whats Packed 2 ads to send any files of any size via WhatsApp. But make sure that both the sender and receiver must have Whats Packed 2 ads application installed on their smartphone.

9. Read Messages without Blue Ticks

When you read a message, you also send back a read receipt to the sender. This way he or she knows that you have seen the message. However, if you don’t want to send a read receipt (blue tick) back to the sender, you can read the message without them knowing it with two simple tricks. If you want to read a message, simply cut off all data networks to the phone. Use airplane mode and turn off Wi-Fi. Open WhatsApp, read your message. Once done, close WhatsApp by killing it from the memory too (use an app killer if needed) and then start your data again. This seems tedious, right. The other simplest trick is to add a WhatsApp Widget on your desktop. If a message arrives, you can read the entire message without the sender knowing it. Simply scroll the message on the Widget. However, beware, if you click on the widget, you will trigger WhatsApp and a blue tick will be sent across.

10. Use WhatsApp on your PC

If you want to use WhatsApp on your PC and have the convenience of a large physical keyboard and a big screen, simply connect your phone to the PC using WhatsApp Web. Head to ‘web.whatsapp.com’ and scan the QR code on the screen with your mobile (from settings and WhatsApp web). Your entire WhatsApp chat will be seen on your browser. Alternatively, you can also download the standalone software of WhatsApp for PC from ‘http://www.whatsapp.com’. You need to have your mobile phone connected to the internet too in order to use this feature.

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