5 WhatsApp and WhatsApp Web tricks that you may not have known
Table of contents:
- How to send a message without having the number entered in the phonebook
- How to read messages on WhatsApp Web without blue check
- How to create your own account to send you files
- How to send an audio without having to keep your finger pressed
- How to hide your profile photo from strangers
At this point in the film we can no longer imagine our life without WhatsApp and its little audio messages. Being able to text each other for free, not too long ago, was unthinkable. Dreaming of being able to 'chat' from our phone, with our loved ones, and that it would cost us nothing (we can talk about the fact that the product is us when the brand offers its 'free' service on another occasion) was not impossible, given what fast as technology advanced. So it was. Right now very few traditional SMS are sent and WhatsApp prevails as a means of telephone communication.It has even, on occasions, replaced the typical phone call. Why do it if we can use audio?
In addition, not too long ago, we can also use WhatsApp on our computer. It is no longer as efficient as the Telegram web application, thanks to WhatsApp Web we can communicate with our contacts through the computer without using the mobile. We have already talked at length about how to have an account on WhatsApp Web, what we have to do today is something different. It is about collecting 5 WhatsApp and WhatsApp Web tricks that you may not know. This way you will be able to squeeze even more out of these messaging services.
How to send a message without having the number entered in the phonebook
Amazon messengers, food delivery drivers, Wallapop vendors, BlaBlaCar contacts... Sometimes we have to get in touch with people we are not interested in keeping in the agenda, contacts with whom we We will only interact a couple of times in our life.And we already know that, to send a message on WhatsApp, we need to save your phone number in the phonebook... or not?
Well no, we don't need to add the phone number to be able to send a message to that person with whom we will never speak again. To do this, you just have to do the following. We take our mobile phone and we are going to write, in the address bar, the following (without quotes): «https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=XXXXXXXXXXXX»You must replace the Xs with the telephone number to which you want to direct the message, not forgetting to include the numerical code corresponding to the country from which the number is. In Spain it is 34. You should not put the '+' sign to the prefix, the address should only include numbers.
At that moment a browser window will open with a button that you will have to press. Automatically, your WhatsApp application will open with the number you have chosen and you will be able to write the message without saving the number in the phonebook.
How to read messages on WhatsApp Web without blue check
To find out what they just told us on WhatsApp Web but without giving clues that we are active, all we have to do is move the mouse pointer to the left column, to the corresponding chat in which they have written to us. Be careful, we should never click, because then the blue check would appear and our contact would be alerted. What you should do is leave the mouse arrow over the window as a pop-up window will appear with the full text of the last message you have been sent. Careful! We must point to the text (without clicking) so that it appears in the window, if we point to the name of the user or group it will appear instead of the message.
How to create your own account to send you files
Yes, we already know that Telegram already has its own place where the user can send himself a large number of different files to keep them close at hand, or to access them from different media . You are on the computer, open the Telegram application, place the file in your account and then do the same with the mobile application. A great way to send yourself files without the need for wires or to deal with Gmail's weight limit. Well, even if WhatsApp does not have that account predefined, we can create it ourselves.
What we are going to do is create a group of two people and throw them out next. That easy. Warn, of course, the other person of what you are going to do, to avoid misunderstandings that lead to anger. To do so, we proceed as follows. We go to the main screen of our WhatsApp and click on the three-point menu located at the top right of the screen.Enter 'New group' and choose the contact to add. Once added, we name the group and accept. Next, click on the upper strip where the name of the group appears and look for the other member. We keep pressing its name until a pop-up menu appears where we can delete it.
How to send an audio without having to keep your finger pressed
There are people who are not content with sending an audio note with a small note but rather talk and talk and talk… condensing everything they could have communicated, in a phone call, in a five-minute audio minutes. If you are one of those, you should know that it is a bit annoying to have to keep your finger pressed. To stop this from happening again, you need to swipe up when you see a lock icon. Then you can either delete it or send it permanently.
How to hide your profile photo from strangers
If your privacy is highly valued, this is how you should hide your WhatsApp profile photo from anyone you don't have on your agenda. Click on the three-point menu and then 'Settings'-'Account'-'Privacy' and, finally, 'Profile photo'. Here you must place who can see your photo, if the whole world, nobody or only your contacts.
