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If you have been attentive or attentive to recent WhatsApp news, you may not be caught by surprise by this new function. And it is that the messaging application has been working for some time to make it easier for users to search for information between chat and group. Specifically, the search for photos, videos, links and documents that can be lost in the meantime, messages, memes and audio Now it is easier to find any of these contents thanks to its improved search tool, which is now available to all users.
The function you expected from WhatsApp is already in the oven
How to get hold of it
WhatsApp has already launched this tool for everyone. All you have to do is update your application to its most recent version You just have to go through the Google Play Store, in case you have an Android mobile, or by the App Store if you have an iPhone. In our tests, version 2.20.198.11 for Android is now fully operational and available to search for absolutely everything you need (you can see your version data in Settings > Help > Application info within WhatsApp).
Although to find out if you already have the new search engine tool, all you need is to click on the magnifying glass icon on the WhatsApp main screen. If doing so displays a whole list of icons and filters, it means that you will have a much more detailed and practical search engine at your disposal.Don't be scared, we will teach you how to use it.
How does it work
This search engine greatly enhances the chances of you finding what you are looking for among your WhatsApp chats. And it is that it applies filters to find, specifically, the content in question. You will no longer search for specific letters or words that match the search result. Now you can also search directly based on the type of content, not just written messages.
There are two ways to use this search engine. A first in which to take advantage of both the terms and the filters to limit the search, or use only filters or only text to make a more general search. It will depend on how clear we have what we are looking for.
All you need to do is click on the magnifying glass icon and type the term you want to find.This will make WhatsApp automatically show results on the screen. It will search for those messages in which it detects those letters or words, as it usually did. The interesting thing here is take advantage of the new filters Thus, if we are clear that we are looking for a link to a web page, a photo, a video, a GIF animation, an audio or even a document, we can limit the search to the messages that accompany these contents.
The other option would be to click directly on any of the new filters that appear in the search tool. Photos, videos, GIFs… Just doing that will show that type of content in the results. Thus, if the document, image or other was not associated with any text, or you do not remember what it was, you can take a quick trip through all this content shared in your WhatsApp chats.If you also add text you will limit the search, but you can also click directly on any of the suggestions and travel to the conversation and make sure that this is the content you were looking for.
With this we can navigate through a list of results. The good thing is that, thanks to this search engine, we will have thumbnails of the photos, videos, GIFs and links so that we do not have to click on the content if it is not what we are looking for. We will have enough context to know if we have found the searched content or not. In addition, WhatsApp allows us to redesign the list of results to see exclusively the images or also the text that accompanies them Very useful if our memory is photographic or if we have in mind the image we are looking for.
