If you are using WhatsApp you must know these tricks

★ Send messages on WhatsApp using Google assistant or Siri

 Suppose you need to send someone a message and are not in a mood to type or maybe you are in a situation where typing isn’t an option, what will you do? Worry not my friend, WhatsApp has got you covered here. You can send messages on WhatsApp using the voice assistant on your phone and it supports both Google Assistant and Siri.

To do that, Android users can call out “Ok Google” to launch the assistant and say the following phrase, “Send a message to on WhatsApp”. It will then ask you to dictate the message. After you have dictated the message, the assistant will ask you to confirm sending the message. Just say,“Yes” or “Send it” to send the message. The procedure is same for the iOS users with the only difference of calling on Siri (“Hey Siri”) rather than Google Assistant.

★Use multiple WhatsApp accounts (Android only)

 One drawback of using WhatsApp is that everyone you know is also using WhatsApp. Although this is a good feature, it can also result in a lot of spam messages. You might also want to use different WhatsApp account for personal and work purposes. While WhatsApp doesn’t allow you to connect two different accounts on a single device natively, you can use third-party apps to achieve that on Android. You can do that by installing an app called Parallel Spacewhich allows you to run two different instances of WhatsApp on your device. The app not only lets you use multiple WhatsApp accounts, it even brings you separate notifications for both the accounts.

 ★ Listen to voice messages secretly without Headphones

 Suppose you get a voice message from someone but you don’t have a headphone with you, what will you do? Of course, you cannot listen to it on a speaker as people around you will also be listening in on your private message. Do not worry there’s a hack for solving this problem.

You just have to play the voice message and place your phone right on your ear, as if you are taking a call. The proximity sensor will activate and instead of playing the message through speakers, it willplay the message on your earpiece, so that only you can hear it.

 ★ Format Text

Now you can format your text while sending messages on WhatsApp. You can either change the font or you can change the format of the text to make it bold or italics or strike-through any text. WhatsApp uses a very simple markup language technique to achieve that. The new font introduced by WhatsApp is called FixedSys. To format your text in FixedSys, you just have to use grave accent (`) character 3 times before and after your text. The character can be accessed by iPhone users on their phones by long pressing on the apostrophe, while the Android keyboard features it on the second page of symbols.

To make your text bold, just add a star (*)and for italics add an underscore(_) at thestart and end of the line or word. For example, writing *bold* will make it bold and _italics_ will make it italics. You can also add ~ at the start and the end to create strike-through for a text.

★ Change app language inside Whatsapp (Android only)

 One neat feature of WhatsApp is that it also allows you to change the default language for your chats from right inside the app. To do that, just go to Settings>Chats>App language and select the language that you want to. Just, keep in mind that the language options are tied to your specific region.

 ★ Apply filters to photos before sending (iphone only)

 Sadly, right now it’s for iPhone users only. Now, whenever you are sending a photo using WhatsApp you will see a small text saying, “Swipe up for filters”.

Upon swiping up, you will find a set of filters you can apply to your photos, just like on Instagram. At the time of writing this article, there are only 6 filters available but are expected to increase with future updates.

★ Pin Chats to the top (Android only)

 If you need to keep a chat on the top, so that is not lost beneath a sea of chats and can be accessed easily, I don’t blame you. We receive messages from so many people on a daily basis that sometimes we lose track of what is important. With WhatsApp’s chat pinning feature, you can pin specific chats at the top. However, this feature is only available for Android users. To do that, long press on a chat and tap the pin icon. You can pin multiple chats at once. With this feature, you will never lose track of what’s important.

 ★Show your status to a chosen few

 Status on your WhatsApp is a great way to let multiple people know about something at the same time without you having to send messages to them. With the inclusion of the new photos & videos status, more and more people are sharing their photos and thoughts using it. But, what if, you don’t want everyone to see your status. What if you just want a select group of people to see your status.

You can do that by managing the settings in the Status option. Just go to WhatsApp Settings>Account>Privacy>Status. Here you will three options, you can either share your status will all your contacts, or you can add specific contacts with whom you want to share your status with. You can also disbar specific contacts from seeing your status while everyone else on your contact list can see them.

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Use WhatsApp as a personal bookmark keeper

 What if I told you that you can use WhatsApp as a personal repository for all your bookmarks and links. It is a very handy trick as all your links will be available to you at your fingertips and you can easily share them with your friends if you want to. To do it, open WhatsApp and create a group with a single friend. Now remove that friend from the group, this essentially means you will be the lone member of that group. Now whatever links you will share in that group will be for your eyes only.

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