Technology News - 10 Easy Tips and Tricks For WhatsApp users

With over 1 billion users around the world, WhatsApp is the most popular and widely used mobile messaging service app. As a WhatsApp user, it becomes very important for us to be up to date with the popular messaging service regularly adding features discreetly.

In this article, we are going to provide some more WhatsApp tips and tricks

Mark chats as unread

Have you ever read a chat and then completely forgot to reply? Not anymore. You can now go back to the important chats by marking with dot to remind you.

Android: Long press chat > Open Menu > Mark as Unread

iOS: Chats > Swipe left to right > Mark as Unread

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Hide your profile picture

Is it one of those days that you don’t want anyone to see your profile picture or you want to remain unseen to certain people of the group that you are a part of. Either way, you can select if everyone, only your contacts, or no-one can see your picture.

iOS & Android: Settings > Account > Privacy > Profile Photo

Know whom you talk to the most

Do you know there is a way in iOS that lets you find out the people you send the most messages? It also lets you know how much storage each person occupies among other things.

iOS: Settings > Account > Storage Usage > Select Contact

Save your data allowance

It is important to limit your data allowance while you are using WhatsApp if you are on a data plan. In WhatsApp, you can customise and ensure that calls use as little data as possible, as well as at the time of media download.

iOS and Android: Settings > Data Usage

Know how long you have been ignored

Do you get impatient or annoyed when you see that the person whom you have sent a message have read your message (blue ticks) but not replied? While we would not recommend this, there is a way you can figure out in WhatsApp when your message was actually read and how long you have been ignored for.

Android: Chats > Specific chat > Specific message > Press and hold > Tap the info “i” icon at the top

iOS: Chats > Specific chat > Specific message > Swipe left to right

Get shortcuts to particular conversations

You can create a shortcut for specific conversations with regulars or extra special people on Android and easily access to those chats that you need all the time.

Android: Chats > Specific chat > Menu > More > Add Shortcut or Chats > Press and hold individual chat > Menu > Add Chat Shortcut

Bookmark important messages

Whether it’s a meeting that you need to attend, or a birthday party to remember, there are some messages that are more important than others. However, it is now possible to bookmark these messages and find them all easily in the Starred Messages section.

Android: Chats > Specific chat > Specific message > Hold down and press the star

iOS: Chats > Specific chat > Specific message > Double tap or hold down and press the star

Send a public message privately

Want to catch up with your friends on a free evening but don’t want to send an individual message to everybody in your chat?

You can send a broadcast message to a list of contacts that would appear as though you have asked them individually.

Android: Chats > Menu > New Broadcast

iOS: Chats > Broadcast Lists > New List > Add contacts

Add dates to your calendar automatically

It is possible to automatically create an event directly from WhatsApp on iOS.

iOS: Press and hold date within chat > Create Event

Customise notifications

There may be particular contacts you want to know immediately if they are calling or messaging you. For such contacts, you can change their specific alert tones so that you are able to identify when that particular person has sent you a message or is WhatsApp calling you.

iOS & Android: Chats > Specific chat > Tap on contact name at top > Custom Notifications

Technology News - Whatsapp Tricks: Use Whatsapp Without Number

This is one of the best whatsapp tricks till now. It is tweaky, you can use whatsapp without number that means not with your own number. We will guide you how you can activate whatsapp with a number which is not your own i.e Fake Whatsapp Number.

How To Install Whatsapp Without Mobile Number?

• First uninstall the official whatsapp application
• Download whatsapp from play store and install it
• Disable messaging services (Enable Flight Mode)
• Open whatsapp application and insert your number. (Whatsapp will not able to send the message to it server to verify as you have enable flight mode in your mobile)
• So now whatsapp will prompt you to choose alternate methods to verify your number
• Choose "Check through SMS" and enter your email address
• Click send button and then instantly click Cancel button. This is required to terminate authorization process
• Install Spoof Messages app in your mobile.

Android users install Spoof Text Message (Search in Google Play Store)

iPhone users install Fake-A-Message

• Now go to the outbox and copy the message details Spoofer Application and send it to spoofed verification i.e. false verification
•  Use given details in Spoofed Message: To: +447900347295 from +(country code) (mobile number) Message: Your Email Address
• After this, a message will be sent to the spoofed number and then you will be able to use this number to connect with friends in whatsapp. Also check this link to know how to you can get multiple whatsapp account in your mobile.

WhatsApp Suspends Giving Facebook European User Data

WhatsApp has temporarily suspended giving parent company Facebook information about users in Europe for ad targeting, responding to concerns there over privacy, a source close to the matter said Tuesday.

Conversations with officials in Europe over the past few months resulted in the social network deciding to only tapping into WhatsApp user data there for purposes such as fighting spam, according to the source.

The break was described as an effort to give regulators time to share privacy concerns and for Facebook to consider ways to address them.

German data protection authorities in September cited privacy concerns when they blocked Facebook from collecting subscriber data from WhatsApp there.

"It has to be (the users') decision whether they want to connect their account with Facebook," Hamburg's Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Johannes Caspar said at the time.

"Facebook has to ask for their permission in advance."

WhatsApp announced in August that it would begin sharing data with Facebook, in a bid to allow better targeted advertising and to combat spam on the platform.

Users of the instant messenger were given the ability to opt out of sending information to Facebook through settings in WhatsApp's applications on smartphones.

European data protection group G29 formally expressed its concerns at the end of October.

The G29 sent letters asking Facebook and WhatsApp to stop sharing data until appropriate legal safeguards were in place.

The sharing of WhatsApp user information with Facebook went beyond what subscribers consented to in the original terms of service, the G29 reasoned.

Facebook bought WhatsApp about two years ago in a deal valued about $19 billion.

In mid-September, the European Commission recommended tighter privacy and security requirements for services including WhatsApp and Microsoft-owned video calling service Skype, saying they should be regulated more like traditional telecoms.

Under the proposal, the commission would require companies like WhatsApp or Skype to offer emergency-calling services when customers dial traditional phone numbers as well as obey stricter privacy rules.

Tricks to Use One WhatsApp Account On Two Phones

Want to use one whatsapp account with two different phones?It will be fun doing this.But don’t try to snoop anyone.One of the downsides of WhatsApp is that it every WhatsApp account is associated with a single phone number making its use limited to one phone at a time. Because the WhatsApp app on your phone periodically checks for an active phone number and if it doesn’t find a match, it will prompt you to re-verify to use it again. Therefore, multi-phone use of the same WhatsApp account on multiple phones usually doesn’t work. But there is a simple workaround.
Even though it is not the most elegant of solutions, it works. And it only needs an active internet connection on the second phone and functions even without a SIM card.

            

Use One WhatsApp Account On Two Different Phones

STEPS TO DO THIS:

1. Open the Web browser on the second phone that you want to also use WhatsApp on and go to web.whatsapp.com.

2. On the mobile browser, it will automatically redirect you to the WhatsApp home page. From the browser options, choose “Request desktop site” (where you find this could vary from browser to browser) and it will then open up the desired Web page with a QR code displayed prominently.

3. On the phone that has WhatsApp installed and running, go to options/settings and choose “WhatsApp Web” (If you are already using WhatsApp Web on any other browser, you will have to log out before proceeding). It will fire up the QR scanner.

4. Scan the QR code displayed on the second phone with the WhatsApp app on the first and it will automatically log in with your account to WhatsApp Web on the second phone. You can now simultaneously use WhatsApp on two phones.

The catch is that you can use this method to use WhatsApp on only one additional device (other than the primary phone on which WhatsApp is installed) and to use on another device, you will have to log out from one.
Also WhatsApp Web isn’t a full-feature replacement for the installed version of WhatsApp. You wouldn’t get notifications and the interface isn’t optimised for mobile use. You might want to switch to landscape to for a fuller view.