The world's most used messaging application continues expanding its possibilities and functions. And it is that, for a few months, it seems to have understood the importance of updates to prevent users from migrating to other tools with more features or new features. That is why WhatsApp is launching new features such as Featured Messages A utility forsave the most important messages sent or received and have them handy to consult anytime and anywhere, either in reminder mode , because of the importance of its content or because of the feelings they arouse in the user.
Starting messages is a simple task that hardly needs a couple of screen taps Your mission is save all those important messages and audiovisual content in a new section so you don't have to look for them in a past conversation or waste time poring over a chat. To do this, you only have to mark them with the new icon of a star, something reminiscent of the old favorites icon of the social network Twitter (before it became a heart). We will tell you step by step.
You just have to move through the conversation you want, be it individual or group, and mark a message. This implies performing a long press on any of them, regardless of whether it is a message sent or received , since everyone can be highlighted. When you do this, the Start option appears on iPhone, or the star icon at the top of the screen on AndroidWhen clicking on this icon, the message is marked as highlighted, with a small star next to the double checkthat identifies you as such.
But then what about these messages? WhatsApp has created a special menu where you can store them all. You just have to display the main menu of the application in Android to find the sectionStarred Messages, where all the messages marked in this way are listed. In the case of iPhone, click on the tab Settings to find this section, where all this content is displayed.
Here it is possible to review all those highlighted messages, ordered according to their selection, and knowing the date on which they were sent or received , as well as the contact or group in which they were publishedIn addition, it is possible to click on any of them to instantly travel to that point in the conversation, without having to search for it manually in the chat, no matter how old whatever the message is.
Keep in mind that you can star any content shared on WhatsApp. This means being able to store text messages, but also videos, photos, audios or shared locations All of it regardless of whether it is our own message, sent by ourselves, or received from any contact.
Of course you can also not highlight these messages In this way they are removed from the list so that they go unnoticed as more sent content by WhatsappYou just have to carry out the same process with a long press within the section Featured Messages Or, if you want to delete all, displaying the menu option of this same screen.
With this, the user of WhatsApp no longer has an excuse for forgetting to buy everything they have been sent in a message, or lose sight of an important address, or even save that beautiful message from someone special. You just have to make sure you have the latest version of WhatsApp for Android ( Google Play) or iPhone (App Store ) and learn how to highlight these messages.
