Five Hacks Every WhatsApp User Should Know

WhatsApp is a very famous app among Indian users. It has 1.5 billion monthly active app users, among which 200 million are from India and it is also the most downloaded app in the country. But not everyone knows about WhatsApp hacks. Basically, WhatsApp hacks are some tips and tricks to help you enjoy a better messaging experience ever than before.

So, if you are using a smartphone and have WhatsApp installed, you may know about some basic features of the app, but do you know all features? Definitely not. Below is the list of hacks that help you do your daily tasks in an easier way.

1. Use WhatsApp via 'OK Google' or 'Siri' voice Assistant

When you are somewhere busy and do not have time to send a text on the platform by typing, then how you can send messages? Don't worry, you can also operate your phone with your voice using Google Voice assistance (for Android users) and Siri (iPhone users). If you are an Android user, you can simply send a message to anyone on WhatsApp by following these steps.

1. Firstly, activate the assistant with the wake word.
2. Say "Send a message to 'someone name' for example "Send a message to Kavita" and speak the message that you want to send.
3. Finally, the voice assistant will automatically send the message to the desired contact.

Apple users get the advantage here; they can also command to read out the unread messages. If you are using an iPhone, follow these steps to get the benefit of this feature. Activate Siri by saying "Hey Siri" and follow the same command as Android for sending a text. If you want to read all the unread messages, you should ask Siri by saying "Hey Siri, read my last WhatsApp messages" and it will do it.

2. Find out who is your most frequent chat buddy

This trick lets you know who interacts with you the most. You need to follow the steps given below. First, head to WhatsApp Settings, then tap on Data Usage and open Storage Usage.

The interface will show the list of chats in decreasing order of data usage or exchange of photos, videos and more. It helps you identify the person with whom you interact the most.

3. How can you use different font styles?

The platform allows you to customize your text on its app, but not everyone knows how. So below are some tricks or hacks with which you can easily get Bold, Italic, underline and strikethrough for a text.

• If you want to make your text bold, enter asterisks (*) before and after a text. For example, *Hello*.
• For Italics: Use underscore (_) in at the beginning and end of a specific text.
• Typewriter font: Type this symbol (`) three times on both sides of a particular text. You will find this symbol in the single inverter comma button.
• For Strikethrough: Write the message between tildes (~).

4. How to hide a conversation on WhatsApp

Hiding chats is quite useful when you don't want to show your personal conversations to someone, but WhatsApp does not offer you a separate place for your hidden chats like Hike messenger. Still, you can easily hide chats with WhatsApp 'Archive Chats' feature. If you want to hide someone chats, follow these steps.

1. Long press on the chat of user which you want to hide.
2. At the top you'll see the folder icon with downwards arrow > Click on it.
3. Your chat will go at the bottom of your chat list.

Note: When the person messages whose you hide the chat, it appears at the top of your recent chat list and also when you send a message, the chat will automatically unarchive.

How to restrict sharing of your WhatsApp data on Facebook

If you don't want to share your WhatsApp chats information to Facebook. You can do it easily by using this WhatsApp hack.

1. Head to the WhatsApp Settings and tap on Account.
2. Uncheck "Share my account info."

Note: If you do not see this option in your Account settings, it means your information is not getting shared with Facebook

5. Share images from your smartphone to your PC without using USB cables and emails

You may often need to send files such as images, videos and more, directly from WhatsApp to a computer or vice versa. You can easily send a file using emails, USB cable, airdrop, and other file sharing apps. Through this WhatsApp hack, you do not need to use anything out of the above. You simply need to log into WhatsApp web on a PC and send the files to yourself or other trusted contacts through your mobile and save it on your PC.