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For almost all of the people with smartphones Whatsapp has by default become the most sought messenger. Mostly because everyone is on it and its availability on multiple platforms. Whatsapp is the only application that boasts off with Facebook Messenger. To add more to its glory, Whatsapp has made itself indispensable by making a browser version and voice calling feature to its platform. For all the users of the app there are some interesting tricks that come in handy to have a better experience using it. Here a few tricks that everyone should know is discussed.

1) Mute Group Chats and Notifications

When you are on multiple groups, the notifications can get noisy often. When you have to focus on a particular task at a time, it can be turned off.

On Android

• On a group chat, tap theMenu button, and hit Mute.
• Then, choose the time-frame for which you would like the group to be muted.
• You can also disable notifications for the specified period.
• This feature is now available on the web browser too.

On iPhone

• OpenGroup Chat
• Tap the group subject to reveal theGroup Info screen, and tapMute.
• Now, select how long you’d like notifications to be muted.
  
  

2) Find out who has read your message in a WhatsApp group

Read receipts from Whatsapp are marked by two blue ticks that indicate the recipient has read your message. Find out who has read your message on group chats by following these steps

On Android
Do a long press on a message sent by you.

• This reveals an ‘i’ with a circle around it.
• Tapping on it will show you who the message was delivered to, and read by.

On iPhone

• See the Message Info screen by opening a chat with a contact or a group
• Then swiping your message from the left to right to see delivery and read notifications.
  
  

3) Disable media to save on cellular bandwidth

You can decide what media you would like to download on mobile data or Wi-Fi. This option can be disabled as unnecessary automatic downloads can consume your available data package.

On Android
Go to Settings -> Chat Settings -> Media Auto-Download to specify when you want images, audio and videos to be downloaded to your phone.

On iPhone
Go to WhatsApp Settings -> Chat Settings -> Media Auto-Download.

3) Disable media to save on cellular bandwidth

4) Change profile photo, status message from the desktop

To change your profile photo with a laptop camera or webcam, or a photo on your drive tap on your avatar on the left hand corner on WhatsApp Web. , This new feature has been recently added to the WhatsApp Web. The feature also works with groups that you are an admin of.

5) Disable Read Receipts

Everyone will know the last time you used the app by default on whatsapp. Your last seen timestamp, profile photo and status message can be changed to ‘Everyone’, ‘My contacts’, and ‘Nobody’ in Settings > Account > Privacy on both iPhone and Android.

Read Receipts, notified by those Blue Ticks can seem too fixated. You can disable them, but this also means you won’t be able to see read receipts from other people.

media to save on cellular bandwidth

6) Send a Broadcast Message

Broadcasting a message is the equivalent of Bccing your message. This is cheaper than sending a group SMS. The replies from your broadcast will be visible only to you.

On Android
Tap on Menu-> New Broadcast, and select all the contacts you would like to round up for the message.

On iPhone
Tap the Broadcast Lists button at the top of the Chats screen ->tap New List at the bottom of the screen, filter from your contact list and then tap ->Create.

7) Migrate to a new number

In case you have changed your SIM card, there’s a way to import your account information, groups and settings. But the old number will be deleted. Make sure that your new SIM is active and able to receive SMSes and calls.

On Android
Tap on Menu -> Settings -> Account -> Change Number 

Then enter the old phone number in the first box, followed by the new number in the second one.

On iPhone
Go to Settings > Account > Change Number,

Enter your old phone number in the first box, and your new phone number in the second box.

 media to save on cellular bandwidth

8)Talk to your phone instead of typing

You can send a Voice message, or let Google’s speech to text engine, embedded in Google’s keyboard do the transcription for you when you don’t really have the time to type a message.

9)Explore hotspots around you

Tap on the Send location icon in the attachment pane to explore interesting hotspots around you. The map is a mash-up of FourSquare check-ins of places around you. You’ll find everything from local technical start ups to restaurants, marked as blue dots.

10) Use WhatsApp Web if you’re an iPhone user

Apple users cannot use WhatsApp Web on their phone without jail-breaking the iPhone, but once you’re past that, this jailbreak tweak on the BigBoss Repo on Cydia enables you to use WhatsApp Web on your PC browser.

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