WhatsApp is a pretty amazing app. People did catch on early on. And now, as its user base continues to grow, it has managed to enter every sphere of your life. Be it friendly chats or business discussions, WhatsApp is here to stay. But are there any benefits of WhatsApp you’re completely missing out on?
To start with, constant notifications irritate us all at some point. And once you have gone online, or read a message, there’s no going back. You’ve to reply, or the person will know. Is there no way out?
Read your messages with ‘Last Seen’ and ‘Read’ status unaltered.
If you want to avoid explaining why you haven’t replied in spite of your ‘last seen’ timestamp and ‘Read’ status updated, you can use this trick.
Dedicate a home screen to a 4×4 WhatsApp widget. All unread messages will appear there, not only the most recent unread message from each chat. Read through all of those messages through the widget and your ‘last seen’ and ‘read’ status will remain unchanged. This really does work like a charm.
Transfer files of any format upto 1 GB on WhatsApp.
What, you thought 16 MB was the limit? An App called WhatsTools sits quietly inside the ‘attach’ button in the chat window (after giving permission using the accessibility service) and allows file sharing of size upto 1GB.
Using this tool, you can bypass the restriction to 16 MB.
You can also pause/resume the upload/download of files and preview video files before downloading. The files are shared through an HTTPS encrypted path and gets stored in your Google Drive account.
Delete old WhatsApp Message Backups and clear space on your phone storage.
Well yeah, your memory filling up- fast. Instead of deleting your precious photos, delete useless chats that have long ended.
To delete the older backup files, go to Internal Storage-> WhatsApp -> Databases.
WhatsApp does a mandatory daily backup in the middle of the night at 02:00. These backups are stored as separate files in the storage memory of your device and with each new backup, containing the thumbnail of all the media received along with newer chats, the file size increases, sometimes to uncomfortable proportions.
This backup to drive feature can also be used while shifting or restoring your phone.
