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Nowadays, you can use countless different chat applications to communicate with family, friends or anyone else. One of the most popular is definitely WhatsApp, which is actively used by more than 2,3 billion users worldwide, which is practically one in three people. So there is a really high probability that you are also using WhatsApp. If you would like to learn something new about it, then in this article you will find WhatsApp tips and tricks that you may find useful.

Turn off read receipts

Most chat apps offer a feature that can show you a read receipt - and WhatsApp is no different. So if you read a message, two blue whistles will always appear on the other side of it, indicating that you have done so. But not everyone wants the other party to see that a message has been displayed. If you view a message and don't reply, it can look like you're ignoring it, but in reality you may not have time to reply. You can turn off read receipts exactly for these situations. But this is an all-or-nothing deactivation - so if it really happens, you won't see the read confirmation from the other side either. If you are able to accept this tax, then move to Settings → Account → Privacy, where deactivate function Read notification.

Text formatting

Do you want to send someone a really important message that needs attention? Alternatively, are you sending a longer message and would like to use formatting in it? If you answered yes, then you should know that text formatting can be used in WhatsApp. Specifically, you can make the sent text bold, italic or crossed out. It's nothing complicated - you just have to do it the classic way they typed a message in the text field. But before sending it mark with your finger and then select an option from the menu Format. After that, it's enough choose which style you want to use, i.e. Bold, Italics, Strikethrough.

Display delivery and read time

If you send a message (or anything else) within WhatsApp, it can take on three different states. These statuses are indicated by a whistle located next to the message you have sent. If appears next to the message one gray pipe, so it means that there has been dispatch message, but the recipient has not yet received it. After it appears next to the message two gray pipes next to each other, so it means that the receiver of the message he has received and he got a notification. Once these pipes turn blue, so that means you got the message in question he read. If you want to view exact time of when the message was delivered or displayed, it is enough that you they ran their finger over it from right to left. The exact date the message was delivered and read will then be displayed.

Disable automatic media saving

By default, WhatsApp is set to automatically save when someone sends you a photo or video. At first glance, this feature may seem good, but most users turn it off after a while due to filling the gallery with all kinds of content, which on the one hand creates a mess in the media, and on the other hand, of course, the storage fills up faster. But the good news is that this feature can be turned off. Just go to in WhatsApp Settings, where you open cottages, and then deactivate possibility Save to camera roll.

Deleting data from storage

WhatsApp stores all kinds of data in the iPhone's local storage. So if WhatsApp is your most used chat application, it can happen that it starts to take up a lot of space in the storage - even tens of gigabytes. Because of this, you may not have any space left for other applications, documents or even photos and videos. Fortunately, there is a simple option to free up the space that WhatsApp takes up - just use a special interface directly in it. So go to in it Settings, where you click the box Data usage and storage, and then Storage usage. Then choose contact, for which you want to delete data, and then tap at the bottom of the screen Manage. Then it's enough tick the data you want to delete. Finally tap on Delete and removal confirm.

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