The text message is dead! And in its place, long live the more popular, more flexible, more user-friendly – Whatsapp.
There are lots of new tricks. Here is a list of 10 new whatsapp trick.
1. Hide the fact that you're ignoring someone
Disabling those giveaway double blue ticks (Settings > Account > Privacy > Read Receipts) is a great way to avoid the 'I know you've read it' message rebuttals when opting to ignore someone. Turn them off all the time, however, and suspicion might start to grow.
And yet you can hide that you've read messages on an individual basis. Before you open the questionable chat, switch your phone to airplane mode. You can now read away with no alert being sent. Now exit the message before you turn airplane mode off again, and it will remain unread - well, in the sender's eyes at least. Cue evil laugh.
2. Mute group chat notifications for personal sanity
You just wanted to know what time you were supposed to be meeting at the pub tomorrow. But that one simple question has resulted in three hours of WhatsApp-based 'banter' between your cretinous mates. Each 'your mum' joke and unwitty aside at an ex's expense is now just a movie-interrupting, sleep-preventing irritant.
Well, no more - it's time to hit the big red mute button. In a chat, simply select the name at the top to launch an in-message settings menu. From here you can toggle mute on (NB: not big or red), cutting out the bings and bongs for a range of timeframes ranging from "friend-snubbing" 8 hours to an "OK, we're done" full year.
3. Stop dirty images showing in your camera roll
If you're the sort of person who sends and receives images you'd rather your friends didn't stumble across, you probably don't want them saved just two swipes from last night's party pics in your camera roll.
There's an easy way to avoid accidental image embarrassment though. In Settings > Chats you can toggle the Save Incoming Media tab. Now you can share smutty snaps with little fear of reprise.
4. Broadcast your private messages to the masses
Just because you want to send the same message to a number of people doesn't mean you necessarily want to start a group chat where everyone can interact with each other and annoy you with endless message alerts. The solution is a 'broadcast'.
Tapping the menu button reveals the 'New broadcast' option. This will send a single message to multiple recipients, creating an individual chat for each. You don't even need to trouble yourself with endless cut and paste efforts either – it's the modern equivalent of BCCing someone into an email.
5. Make important messages easy to locate
We've all been there - scrolling back through 268 messages trying to find an address or meet-up time. There is an easier way though - starring your standout messages for future finding. Similar to favouriting a tweet, WhatsApp messages can be starred simply be holding down on the desired correspondence and tapping the pop-up star icon.
You can then jump straight to a list of all your starred messages direct from your WhatsApp homescreen. Hours of endless scrolling begone.
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