10 hidden features of WhatsApp you don’t know

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world, used by over 1.2 billion people worldwide, in over 180 countries and 10million in Nigeria alone. Despite its success, the Facebook-owned company has not become complacent and always keeps the competition on its toes by releasing new features every few weeks.

 Check out some latest unique feature of WhatsApp application

Your WhatsApp application can Send PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, slideshows and more, without the hassle of email or file sharing apps.

Aside from the file transfer of photos and videos you can  even capture with built-in camera and send.

WhatsApp allows you to format your text by adding symbols in front of and after words to achieve a level of aesthetics or emphasis. You can format to bold, italics, and strike through

 For BOLD add asterisks to either side of a word or sentence, e.g. *bold*

For Italics start and end the message with underscores. Example _italics_

For strikethrough text add tildes at the beginning and end of the word. Example:  Rs strikethroughRs

You can find out who among your contact you chat with most. For android go to Settings > Chat > Chat History > Email Chat to view you most chat up contacts.

While for iphone Go to Settings > Data and Storage Use > Storage Use.

You can use the WhatsApp to know the number of messages received, sent, status, data consumed and other such statistics go to  Setting> Data Usage > Network Usage.

You can also reset this statistics.

You can also limit the amount of data you use In the Data Usage menu by ticking the box.

If you belong to some overzealous whatsapp group and it keeps getting you distracted you can mute it.

Go to open the group > select menu (three dot at top right)> choose duration from options

You can also stop notifications using this same step just un-tick the box

In Whatsapp one tick means message sent, two tick messages received/delivered, blue tick message read.

If you don’t want to let your contact know you have read their messages go to menu> settings>accounts> privacy > untick read receipts.

At this place for android users, you can also modify your last seen, who see your profile photos etc.

Referring to number 8 if you deactivate your read receipts you also cannot see when they read your message.

So to eat your cake and still have it without having to deactivate your read receipt, once you have received the messages you want to read without letting them know, put your phone on air-plane mode. Go to WhatsApp, read the messages, when you are done close it then turn –off your air-plane mode.

To conserve data and or storage space you can stop incoming pictures and videos automatically saving to your phone just go to Settings -> Chats -> turn off Save Incoming Media.