5 essential WhatsApp tricks

We all use WhatsApp. It is so. An application that revolutionized the sending of instant messages. That angered operators, seeing how their profitable SMS business was decreasing at times. An application with its shadows (security, controversial 'states') and lights (its tremendous simplicity). And with his tricks, too. We, on occasions, have counted up to 50. Today we are going to be more modest and here we leave you with the 5 WhatsApp tricks that we like the most. And that, we consider, are totally essential.Let's start.

5 essential WhatsApp tricks

Mention someone

Whether we like it or not, we are in a WhatsApp group. Or several, which is worse. And, among the avalanche of users that usually make them up, we get lost. We want to say something to someone, in the middle of a conversation. And we fear that it will be lost, among all the messages that are sent. Therefore, there is a good way to find out well informed: expressly quote it. To do this, you will only have to add an '@' to your name in WhatsApp. He will receive a notification when he is named.

Write in bold, italics, and strikethrough text

A trick that few know and fewer use.It is true that it is a bit complicated, because it is about add a code to the phrase or word that we want to highlight But, sometimes, it is very good, above all , as we have said before, when we want to highlight something in a group. To write in bold, all you have to do is place the text between asterisks. If you want to highlight a happy birthday to a member of a group, you should put happy birthday, @pepeperez for example.

If you want your text to appear in italics, you must place what you want to appear between underscores '_'

And for the crossed out text, as if you wanted to censor something, you should write it between tildes '~'

This way, everything you write on WhatsApp will have a very personal touch.

Disable automatic file download

If you don't want your data to fly, you should deactivate the automatic download of photos and videos, at least when you're on a mobile connection .To do this, you just have to go to the main WhatsApp menu, which you will find on the chat screen, in the upper right part. Here you will click on 'Settings'. Then, in 'Data usage'. And here, in 'Automatic download'. Choose ‘Connected to mobile data’ and uncheck all the boxes.

Disable double blue check

Having someone waiting for you to answer is a drag. And they know it: if the double blue check appears, it means that WhatsApp, like a sneak, has told them that you have read it. And if you don't answer... we're bad. Solution? Deactivate it. Thus, even if you read the messages they send you, it will never appear to them that you have read them This has, on the other hand, a small drawback... That if you have a gossipy soul , neither will you be able to know if your interlocutor has read what you have sent them. Logical, right?

To deactivate the double blue check you just have to go to the WhatsApp main menu, on the chat screen, upper right. Then, click on 'Account' and 'Privacy'. Here, in addition to deactivating the double blue check in 'Read receipts', we can eliminate the last connection time, who can see my states, the profile photo , etc.

How to search for GIFs

It is not something that everyone knows how to do, because it is not intuitive at all. To send a specific GIF in a conversation, we must search for it according to the terms: if it is a birthday, we will search for 'Happy Birthday', for example. To do this, we just have to press the emoticon that appears in the text box, and, at the bottom, press GIF. On the next screen, some default GIFs appear. Bottom left we see a magnifying glass Press it and write what we want. Then, we select the GIF and send.

With these WhatsApp tricks the experience of sending messages will be much more fun. Try them!