Some features you didn't know about WhatsApp
Create a shortcut to a conversation.
We use WhatsApp a lot every day to communicate, to deal with work, to chat with friends and so on. But there are always people that we talk to at a high rate every day, such as our loved ones, children, parents and other relatives. So every time you want to talk to them, their chat window is covered up by some overwhelming messages, so we have to look for them for a while every time we chat. In fact, we don't have to go to all this trouble, we just need to find them and then open the settings to add them to our desktop so that we can find them easily and intuitively, this will reduce the operation and save a lot of time, and it will also show that you value them.
Make backups of your messages
As a software that carries our daily remote chats, WhatsApp must hold a lot of our precious memories. It could be a heartfelt conversation with a loved one, a heartfelt conversation with a friend, or some important pictures or files. You can imagine if you lost your phone one day or if all your messages were gone, what a loss that would be. Then you can retrieve your conversation history from your email, which gives us a lot of peace of mind.
Turn off automatic media downloads to reduce memory usage
As a daily user, WhatsApp generates a lot of messages every day, especially in groups that send a lot of videos and pictures, which are sometimes automatically stored on our phone. It is most likely these messages are not of interest to us, which makes our phone memory consume a lot. To avoid wasting resources, we can go to the settings and find the option to allow automatic downloads only in wi-fi environments and then our problem is simply solved.
Find your friend's location
Imagine a scenario where you and a friend have arranged to go somewhere together, you have arrived but your friend has not yet arrived, you call your friend and say he will be there in a minute. In fact the real situation is that he is still at home putting on his shoes. To avoid such embarrassment, you can share your location with your friend in the conversation screen, from which you can see where your friend has gone. Another scenario is that you have asked a friend to meet you in a relatively unknown place and you are a bit lost, you can turn on location sharing so that you can easily find your friend. Isn't this a very useful feature.
Change privacy settings
Don't you sometimes wake up in the morning to find you've been pulled into some group chat and the overwhelming amount of spam is driving you crazy? Now we can find Privacy in the settings and this feature gives us more control over who can add us to groups and who can't, so it's a good way to avoid us being added to ad groups by strangers.
Conclusion
As a software that we use every day of our lives, WhatsApp has many more interesting hidden features, so why not take some time and let's take a closer look at it together.