Questions and answers about conversations and group chats on WhatsApp

The more people use an application, the more doubts there will be around it. And more taking into account if it is an application that, every week, is updated with news. We are going to try to answer some of the most important questions that you have been transmitting to us on our page. Questions and answers about conversations and group chats in WhatsApp, to serve as a guide and manual for the user. Let's start.

How to change WhatsApp profile photo?

An important aspect of any messaging service is knowing how to choose your profile picture well. It serves as a letter of introduction and, surely, be an image that stays in your account for a long time. Your contacts will identify you with it. If you want to change the photo you have right now in WhatsApp, you have it very easy.

• First, click on the three-point WhatsApp menu and go to the app settings.
• In the settings window, click on your profile photo: you will find it at the top. Do you see the camera icon? This is where you can change it You can choose a photo from the gallery app or take a new one right then and there. Then, adjust the image and that's it, you already have a new WhatsApp profile picture.

Do messages take up space in the mobile storage?

Yes, of course. WhatsApp stores inside it a backup copy of all your conversations, so that you have it at hand when you uninstall the app or change your phone. In any case, we must tell you that you should not worry about it because the space they occupy is minimal. What it does occupy, and a lot, is the automatic download of videos and images. But don't worry, we'll teach you how to deactivate them.

This does not mean that you will be able to see the videos or photos that you send yourself, but that you yourself will be able to choose which ones you want to see. To do this, you just have to go to the menu and, then, to the 'Data usage' section. In 'Automatic download' we can choose what type of files and under what connections we want them to be downloaded. We recommend deactivating the automatic download of videos and photos on WiFi and data, and then downloading only what interests us.

With this simple trick we will see how our internal storage will not suffer so much wear… Apart from not encountering any unpleasant surprises while showing your photos to your friends or parents... And the thing is that people send some very strange things.

However, if you want to delete your chat history, you must go to a file manager, to go to the WhatsApp folder and delete the 'Databases' folder.

What is the maximum number of people I can fit in a group?

Right now, the WhatsApp application itself allows you to have groups of up to 250 members without the need for tricks or third-party applications. If Telegram can include up to 500 people, WhatsApp could not be less.

How can you recover chats from a WhatsApp account?

Yes, you can.Every morning, at 3 in the morning, WhatsApp makes a backup copy of all the conversations we have had and saves them on your phone. They are usually stored in the WhatsApp folder, inside the subfolder 'Databases', as we saw in previous issues.

If your chats are stored directly on the memory card, this is the itinerary you should follow to recover saved conversations: SD card\WhatsApp\WinPhoneBackupIf you do not know if they are saved in the phone memory on the SD card, go to the applications section and, there, go to WhatsApp. In WhatsApp there is an option that is 'Storage'. Here you can change the destination.

You can also store your copies on Google Drive. To do this, go to WhatsApp>Settings>Chats>BackupHere you can configure the frequency of the saving, the Gmail account to which Google Drive is associated and the possibility of making the copy using only WiFi or WiFi and data. In the copy we can include, in addition to photos, all the videos that are sent to us and that we send.

In any case, if you change your phone, conversations will recover by themselves when you enter your personal data.

Where are chats stored on Windows Phone?

If your phone has Windows Phone operating system, things change. You have two ways to save WhatsApp conversations: uploading them to the cloud, periodically, to OneDrive For this, the requirements are to have an operating system 8.1 or higher, have a OneDrive account and have enough space. To find out if you have it, go to Settings>System>Storage sensor.

You can also choose the periodicity of the storage, include or exclude the videos from the copy, or choose under what conditions you want the backup is made, if by WiFi or WiFi and data.

To restore a copy of the conversation from OneDrive you just have to go to the app of WhatsApp>More>Settings>Chats and calls>Backup.

If, on the other hand, the conversations have been saved into the phone or SD card, you will have to do the following:

If they are on a card, open the file manager and go to SD card>WhatsApp>WinPhoneBackup. If you don't know where your conversations are saved, try, in your phone's menu, to go to Settings>System>Storage sensor.

How to forward WhatsApp messages to other contacts

If you want to forward any message that one friend has sent you to another, just hold on that message and then press the arrow buttonto the right that we see at the top.Then, all you have to do is tap on the contact you want to forward the message to. It's that easy and simple.

How to quote a message to reply more comfortably

Imagine a group of more than 50 people. You want to answer someone who has asked a question, among hundreds of them, and you want everything to be clear, both the message and the recipient. Well, you have it really simple: hold down the message you want to forward and press, this time, the arrow that goes to the left. At that moment, a dialog bar will open with the embedded message. Just add your text and forward it.

How can I quote a user in a conversation?

When a group has too many members, it is quite convenient to be able to personally quote someone, if the message is specifically addressed to them.To do this, in the box where you write the message, you just have to put a @ and then the name of the contact. The contact will receive a message notification.

If I block a user, will I still appear in WhatsApp groups?

Yes. If you block a WhatsApp user you will continue reading that person in groups that you have in common. Blocking is only effective for personal communications between you and that person. There is no way to avoid reading that person who bothers you so much in groups. The only way, sad but that simple, is for you to leave the group.

How can I change the wallpaper of conversations?

To change the background of WhatsApp conversations you just have to go to settings>chats>background.Then the system will ask you where you want to get the fund from. You can also choose a solid color, if you don't like so much decoration in the application. Or even leave no background: a solid gray will be applied to the entire screen wallpaper.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to customize the wallpaper for which user. If you change the background, you change it for all conversations. Hopefully the other possibility will be available soon in a future update.

Can I change the background of the speech bubbles?

No, the only background you can change in WhatsApp is that of conversations, and the change will be applied to all contacts at once. The speech bubble will always be green in your case and white in the case of your interlocutor.

How can I share a contact from my phonebook on WhatsApp?

If you want to send a contact that you have in your phonebook to another WhatsApp user, it's really easy.You just have to press the clip icon that appears in the bottom bar of the chat and then select contact. The agenda will open for you to choose the one you want to send and all that remains is to send it. It's that simple.

How do I make it bold and italic?

Very recently, WhatsApp allowed users to write in different formats, such as bold, italics or strikethrough. To be able to write like this we only have to place, before and after the sentence, some symbols that we will reveal to you below:

• To write in bold, you must place a asterisk before and after the message: »I'm fed up, Mari Loli»
• To write in italics, you must place an underscore.
• To write something crossed out, we must place a virgulilla (the tail of the añe) at the beginning and at the end.

How to make the letter bigger in WhatsApp

Starting with Android 7 Nougat, Google's system allows you to make the screen interface bigger or smaller, depending on your taste . If what we want, however, is to make the WhatsApp letter bigger, and only the letter, we are going to have to modify all the text of the system. There is no way to just make WhatsApp text bigger.

To increase the font size in Android, we must do the following:

• Let's go to the 'Settings' application. It is usually represented by a gear-shaped icon.
• Then, we go to the section 'Screen'. Here we can see different options to change everything related to the screen of our device: brightness, auto rotate, auto power off…
• In 'Font size' is where we can adjust the font size of the interface. Press and adjust the size, adapting it to your needs.

When I open WhatsApp it stays blank, what do I do?

For this WhatsApp bug, the best thing you can do is go to the application settings and clear data and cache.To do this, go to the applications menu, click on 'Settings' and then 'Applications'. Choose 'WhatsApp' and you will see two buttons to clear data and cache. If the error still persists, uninstall and reinstall.

Can I modify the order of WhatsApp conversations?

On the conversations screen, the chats are ordered chronologically, that is, the last ones that you have had active are first.So that one always remains above the rest, we must apply a thumbtack To do this, we only have to press and hold the chat or that we want to fix and a top bar will appear with different icons. Later, we press the thumbtack and that's it. You can only set up to 3 WhatsApp chats or groups, so choose them carefully.