How to put your favorite WhatsApp contacts on the Android phone desktop

One of the main differences that we can see between the Android and Apple operating systems is the great customization capacity that the former has. And although widgets are often forgotten when we have an Android phone, sometimes they can help us more than we think. What are widgets? Well, they are shortcuts to certain functions of the applications that we can have visible on the screen of our mobile.And this is what we are going to talk about now, widgets… WhatsApp.

We are going to teach you how to place shortcuts to your favorite WhatsApp contacts, those people with whom you have been talking for a long time and with whom you have endless conversations. Isn't it better to have a small widget that directs you, directly, to the person you want to talk to, instead of entering WhatsApp?

We have two ways to place our favorite WhatsApp contacts on the desktop of our Android phone. Let's go there with the first one. Perform the trick while reading the text, so you'll retain it much better and won't forget it when you want to do it again.

How to place your favorite WhatsApp contact on the desktop (I)

Let's go to the WhatsApp application. If for some reason you did not have it installed, you can do it from the Google Play Store application store at its own link. We open the application and do the following.

We go to the contact that we want to place on the desktop screen of our Android phone in the chat column. When we have its screen open, click on the three-point menu that we can locate in the upper right part of the screen. A small popup window will then be displayed. Click on the 'More' option and a second window will open. Here, we go to ‘Create Shortcut‘.

A third window will open with two options, 'Cancel' and 'Add'. Click on this second one and the element will have been automatically added to your desktop A second screen is always created to house the shortcut even if you had plenty of space on the main one.

How to place your favorite WhatsApp contact on the desktop (II)

And now we finish our tutorial with the second option to place your favorite contacts on the screen of your mobile phone. To do this, we are going to do the following.

We go to the screen where we want to place the shortcut icon and we keep the screen pressed for several seconds The screen below may vary depending on the customization layer that your phone has but, invariably, we must choose the option that appears to us as 'Widgets'. On the screen that appears below we have at our disposal all the widgets that we can place on the screen of our Android phone. It is worth taking a little time to take a look at them and see all the possibilities we have.

This time we are going to stop at the WhatsApp widgets.As they are in alphabetical order, we go down to the 'W' and, among all the widgets that appear, we select 'Shortcut chat'. We hold down the widget and drag it to the chosen screen. At that time, the list with our contacts will appear. We select the chosen contact and we will have our direct access.