21 Best What's App Tricks and Tips You Must Know In 2021.

More than a billion people across the world now use WhatsApp every day, having moved away from boring and expensive text messaging. But because the service is constantly adding new features, it can be hard to keep up with everything it can do, so in this WhatsApp special post, we help ensure that you’re getting the most from your messages.

We provide clear, step-by-step instructions on how to use its best features, such as video calling and WhatsApp Web, and offer tips on how to beat its biggest annoyances– by silencing incessant group chats, blocking spam and decluttering the homepage. We’ve also included a range of hacks to help you find and share everything faster. Finally, we suggest some tips about security and privacy.

Send any file including hi-res images.

In the past, WhatsApp only let you send PDFs and media files, but you can now send any file type, which makes it a great alternative to sending attachments in emails.

Steps to do so-
1. To send a file, tap the paper clip icon in the chat and choose Documents.

2. A list of documents appears on your device, which you can sort by name or date.

3. Pick the file you want to send and it’ll appear in the chat for your recipient to download.

4. To send an image at full resolution, pick browser other docs’ to browse all the files on your device.

Share multiple contact details.

When you want to share contact details with a friend, there’s no need to send a business card from your Contacts app.

Steps to do so-
1. Just tap the paper clip icon in a chat, select Contact and you can choose one or more contacts to share with the recipient.

2. Tap the right arrow and WhatsApp lets you choose which details you want to share for each person.

Edit photos before you send them.

Sharing photos and screenshots is simple enough, but sometimes you might want to crop an image before you send it. WhatsApp lets you do this without having to install additional photo-editing apps.

Steps to do so-
1. Just tap the paper clip icon, select Gallery and choose the photo you want to send.

2. Next, tap the crop icon and drag the markers to highlight your selection.

3. Tap Done and swipe up to add filters, stickers, and text, or to draw on the image.

4. There’s an Undo button to remove the changes if you’re not happy with the results.

Quote old messages in a chat.

Sometimes it takes a while to respond to messages, by which time a group conversation may have drifted to a totally different subject. In these cases, you can quote the exact message you’re responding to.

Steps to do so-
1. Long-pressing it and then tapping the left arrow on the toolbar. The quoted message appears in a pop-up window so you can compose your response below it.

2. When you tap the Send button, your message appears directly below the quote and the name of the user, so there’s no ambiguity about who you’re responding to.

Share your location with other people.

If you’ve ever tried meeting someone in an unfamiliar place, you’ll know how difficult it can be to explain where you are using a vague description of your surroundings. Thanks to WhatsApp’s location-sharing feature, you’ll never need to do this again.

Steps to do so-
1. To share your location in a chat, tap the paperclip icon and select Location.

2. Approve any permissions that the app asks for, then tap ‘Send your current location’.

3. When the recipient receives your location, they can tap it to launch Google Maps and get directions to find you.

Change your What's app wallpaper.

WhatsApp lets you change the wallpaper displayed behind your chats.

Steps to do so-
1. Just open the menu within a chat, tap Wallpaper and pick an image from your Gallery or Whats App’s Wallpaper Library.

2. If you’d prefer something plainer, try the Solid Colour or No Wallpaper options. Note:- that changing the wallpaper only affects your own chats and not your recipients’.

Assign notification tones to What's app groups.

You can set custom notification tones for your group chats, so you instantly know if you’ve received a message from a particular set of friends –without needing to look at your phone.

Steps to do so-
1. Open a group chat, tap the menu button and choose ‘Group info’, then tap ‘Custom notifications’ and tick the box to ‘Use custom notifications’.

2. You can then pick from a range of notification tones; choose whether your phone vibrates or not; and decide whether it displays a pop-up notification.

Change the font size in What's app.

Steps to do so-
1. To change the font size in WhatsApp on an Android device, open its main menu and tap Settings, then Chats and Font Size.

2. Here, you can choose from Small, Medium or Large text.

On an iPhone, WhatsApp uses the system font size.
To change this, open ‘Display & Brightness’ from your iPhone Settings, then tap Text Size. You can make the text even larger by opening Settings, General and Accessibility, then tapping Large Text.

Pin important WhatsApp chats.

If you find that important conversations are often pushed down the screen by unimportant you can pin your favorite conversations so they’re always easy to find.

To do this,
1. Long-press the chat you want to keep near the top and tap the pin icon.

2. To unpin a chat, long-press it again and select the pin icon with a strike through it.

Bookmark important messages of What's app.

When someone sends you information such as an address or telephone number, scrolling through reams of messages to find it again can be annoying.

To avoid this, bookmark the message by long-pressing it and tapping the star icon. When you need it again, select ‘Starred messages’ from the main menu to view all your bookmarked messages.

Find every link you’ve ever shared on your What's app.

If you’re looking for a link in a message that you didn’t start, use the following trick.

To do so-
1. Go to the appropriate chat and tap the three-dot button.

2. Select Media, then Links to scroll through a chronological list of all the links shared between you and that contact.

3. You’ll also see tabs for Media and Documents, which make it easier to find files you’ve shared with that contact.

Add chat short cuts to your home screen.

You can add a home-screen short cut to your favorite chats, for quick access.

To do so-
1. Open the chat you want to add a shortcut for, tap the menu button, then select More and ‘Add shortcut’.

2. An icon appears on your home screen, which you can move to a chosen position.

Stop anyone knowing you’ve read their messages.

If you’d rather people didn’t know when you’ve read their messages, you can turn off the option that tells them.

To do so-
1. From WhatsApp’s Settings menu, select Account and Privacy, then untick the box for ‘read receipts’.
Bear in mind that if you turn this feature off, you won’t be able to see when other people have read your messages either.

Back up chats and media files on What's app.

These days, you can back up pretty much anything on your phone to the cloud, and WhatsApp chats are no exception.

To set WhatsApp to back up to Google Drive.
1. Open the app’s main menu and select Settings, Chats and ‘Chatbackup’.

2. Tap ‘Back up to Google Drive’ to choose how often the app saves backups, or select the green Back Up button to back up immediately.

3. Select a Google account and tap ‘Back up over’ to specify whether WhatsApp can perform backups over ‘Wi-Fi or cellular’ or only Wi-Fi.

4. If you want to include videos in the backup, tick the appropriate box. When you get a new phone, you can restore WhatsApp chats from your Google Drive backups

Change who can see your private information.

From the Privacy menu in WhatsApp’s Account Settings, you can also choose who is allowed to see your personal information, including your profile picture, status and when you were last online.

To do so-
1. For each option, you can choose Everyone, ‘My contacts’ or Nobody. It’s a good idea to use ‘My contacts’ in most instances, otherwise, anyone with your phone number can see when you were last online.

2. It’s also worth pointing out that setting the ‘Last seen’ option to ‘Nobody’ means you won’t be able to see when any of your contacts were last online.

Add two-step verification in What's app.

Two-step verification adds another layer of security to your account by asking for a six-digit PIN to verify your phone number on WhatsApp, whenever it’s installed on a new device.

1. To turn it on, open Settings, then Account and select ‘Two-step verification’.
2. Tap Enable and enter your PIN, then tap Next and enter it again to confirm.
3. Tap Next once more and you’ll be asked to enter an email address, to which you can send a link that’ll reset your PIN if you forget it.

Password-protect WhatsApp.

WhatsApp has no built-in password protection for your chats, but you can add a layer of security on an Android phone by installing a third-party app such as AppLock.

This handy app lets you keep snoopers at bay by locking apps with a password, PIN or fingerprint. You can add another layer of security by enabling Advanced Protection, which stops persistent spies from uninstalling AppLock.

Get alerted when someone changes the device.

You can set WhatsApp to alert you if a chat’s end-to-end encryption key has changed. This normally indicates that the recipient has reinstalled WhatsApp or transferred it to a new device, so you can simply ask them to confirm that they know why a new key has been issued.

1. To enable the feature, open Settings, tap Account and Security and make sure that ‘Show security notifications’ is turned on.

Stop people reading your message notifications.

If you have an iPhone, you can receive notifications for new messages without displaying their content on screen. Just open the app’s Settings menu, tap Notifications and toggle the switch for Preview to off. You’ll now see the name of the contact in your notifications but not the message.

On Android phones, there’s no option to block previews from WhatsApp, but you can block WhatsApp notifications altogether by opening Android Settings, then select Apps and WhatsApp. Toggle ‘Block all’ to On and you’ll never get caught out by messages appearing on the screen.

Silence annoying group chats.

If you’re often distracted by WhatsApp group chats, try muting them.

To do so-
1. Open the offending chat, tap the three-dot button in the top-right corner and select ‘Mute notifications’.

2. You can silence the chat for eight hours, one week or one year, and untick ‘Show notifications’ to stop notifications appearing.

3. If you change your mind, simply select the menu button again and choose Unmute. You can also mute conversations with individuals by opening the appropriate conversation, tapping the menu button and selecting ‘View contact’.

Set Fingerprint Lock.

Fingerprint lock is a very new update of WhatsApp in which you can set a fingerprint lock on your WhatsApp App.

Whatsapp Fingerprint Lock

To do so-

1. Open your WhatsApp and click on the three dots in the upper-right corner and open Settings.

2. Inside Settings, click on Account > Privacy and scroll down inside the Privacy section.

3. Click on Fingerprint Lock and turn on 'Unlock with fingerprint'.

4. Set your fingerprint and set Automatically lock time. Done.

You can also choose that you want to show a message and sender in the notification bar or not.

So, these are 21 Whatsapp tips which I know and if you also know such whats tips, share them in the comment section below.

How To Download YouTube Video Without using Any External Software.

Today, YouTube is the place where we spend most of our time every day. As we all know that at present YouTube is a sea of video contents and there are numbers of videos are available on every interest and categories. Once you enter inside the sea of videos named 'YouTube' and start watching videos of your own interest then sometimes it becomes very difficult to come out of it because YouTube works on some algorithms that it starts suggesting you videos related to your interest and what you do. You just watch them all one after another.  But what to do when you like some video and want to download it to watch them later again. 

There is an option present on the YouTube app that you can save some video to watch them in Offline mode. But what to do when you are on your PC or mobile and want to save that Youtube video. We all know that there are a lot of third-party software and apps like 'YouTube Downloader' which you can install on your PC or mobile and download any YouTube video you want.   

But, Today in this post I am going to tell you a very simple and the easiest way to download any YouTube video on your PC and mobile phone without the use of any third party software and app.

Steps required to Download YouTube Video on PC- 

1. Open any browser o your PC just for example I am using Google Chrome for this process and search for that video that you want to download on YouTube.

2. Play that video for a few seconds and then keep it pause. On top of your browser, you will get Url link of that video. You just have to edit that Url as shown below and then hit enter.

3. After hitting enter you will be redirected to a new tab and there you will find an option to download that video so click on that option and your video will start downloading.

Steps required to Download YouTube Video on Mobile- 

1. Open Chrome browser on your phone and search for YouTue.com and then search for that video that you want to download from YouTube. Click on the three-dot in the upper right corner and select Desktop Mode from the dropdown menu.

2. Now you have to repeat the same process that you had done above process, edit the Url link of that video and press OK.

3. You will be redirected to a new tab and there you will get an option to download that video so just click on it and your video will start downloading. 

You can download any video which is there on YouTube by this method and without using any third-party software and apps.

How To Turn your tablet into a second screen with Splashtop Wired XDisplay

Most of us like to multi-task when we work on our computer, and transforming your tablet into a second screen can make this a lot easier. You can keep your main screen focused on your work, while the second screen is used to display your email, Facebook account, news headlines or whatever else you want to keep half an eye on.

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How To use your tablet or phone screen as a second display for your PC.

Step 1 

Install the XDisplay app on your tablet and accept the End User Licence Agreement (EULA). You’ll need to enable USB debugging on your device (the app will take you there automatically). Tap the box to turn on debugging. If this option is greyed out, make sure the switch at the top is set to On.

Step 2 

Hit the Back button to return to XDisplay. Install the XDisplay Agent for PC (or Mac), and restart your computer if prompted to do so. You can adjust the framerate and quality using the drop-down boxes. It’s unlikely, but if you need to install a USB driver for Android, simply follow the instructions on the page.

Step 3 

Your tablet should now work as a second screen. You can move your mouse over to it, and drag content between your monitor and tablet display. Clicking the Set Resolution button will open Windows’ display configuration screen, where you can adjust the resolution and display behavior.

 This is very useful for those who want to do multitasking with your PC and you can also control your PC with the connected device.

How To Reject fake friends on social media.

Connecting with strangers on Facebook and Twitter may gain you more friends and followers, but it also leaves you vulnerable to scammers and spammers. Be aware, if you’re tempted to accept a friend request from a stranger or allow someone to follow you, that around 83 million Facebook accounts are thought to be fake and many of these are used for nefarious purposes.

  

First, check the person’s Facebook profile (if you can) to verify they are who they say they are. Who are their friends? Where do they live? Have they shared any content aside from their profile photo? Best of all, try searching for their profile photo using an image search engine to see if the picture has been stolen from elsewhere. To do this, save the photo to your Desktop, then go to TinEye (www.tineye.com) or Google Images (images.google.co.uk) and upload the picture to search for matches across the web. You can report a fake account to Facebook by clicking the three-dot icon on its cover photo and choosing Report. 

Fake accounts on Twitter can follow you without asking permission and may tweet links to malicious sites or pester you and your real followers with spam or porn. Many such accounts have eggs for profile pictures because they haven’t changed Twitter’s default settings, but others use photos of real people and not all egg accounts are fakes. 

There are several tools that scan your list of followers to determine which profiles aren’t genuine, but these often charge you to reveal the findings and let you block the offenders. Fortunately, a helpful chap called Clayton Lambert offers a couple of free scripts for weeding out fake Twitter followers, called Block & Remove Fake Twitter Egg Followers and Fake Twitter Follower Removal Script. Both need to be run using the Console function in Chrome – you’ll find full instructions on their respective pages. 

You can easily block and report fake accounts by clicking the cog icon in the top-right corner of their profile and choosing the appropriate option.

How To Identify fake customer reviews.

Not all the reviews you read on websites such as Amazon, TripAdvisor and Google Play can be taken at face value. It’s becoming increasingly common for companies and developers to buy fake reviews and ratings on these sites, in the same way, that you can get thousands of Twitter followers overnight by paying for them. The fraudulent reviewers are usually real people (Amazon won’t let you post a review unless you’ve bought at least one item from the store) who have signed up with services such as LaunchZon (launchzon.com) that bulk-sell bogus opinions. Alternatively, they advertise their writing skills through task marketplaces such as Fiverr (www.fiverr.com), which last year was at the center of Amazon’s clampdown on fake reviews that involved the store suing 1,114 alleged perpetrators. Current listings on Fiverr include ‘I will post a positive review anywhere’ and ‘I will write perfect reviews for your Android apps’ – clearly the community hasn’t learned its lesson.

You can identify many of these paid-for reviews by using common sense – click the reviewer’s name to see all the opinions they’ve posted; if the text is very similar, they’re almost definitely a shill. Additionally, fake reviews are often vague, brief or over-enthusiastic, for example: “Best book/tablet/waffle maker I’ve ever bought, worth every penny!”.

For more scientific analysis, paste the URL of a product’s Amazon page into Fakespot (fakespot.com) and click ‘Analyse It!’. Fakespot uses its special algorithms to scan the reviews of the item for signs of fraudulence, looking at the language used, the reviewer’s profile, correlation with other reviewers’ data, the sentiments expressed and “prevailing patterns used by proven fake reviewers”. Once finished, it gives an overall grade and summary to indicate whether reviews of the item are likely to be genuine or false. We were pleased (but not surprised!) that Fakespot gave our 2015 Back Issues Disc an ‘A’ grade and concluded that “you can trust reviews of this product”; whereas a pair of Techrise earphones received an ‘F’ and a warning for suspicious all-five-star reviews. See Fakespot’s Worst Fake Reviews section for other examples.

Fakespot isn’t always right, but the more reviews it analyses, the more accurate it becomes – it’s already checked more than 390,000. There are also Fakespot extensions for Chrome (click here) and Firefox, so you can scan review pages on the fly.

Catch People Trying To Use Your Phone.

Apple and Google both offer free services for locating, locking and wiping a lost or stolen phone, called Find My Phone and Find Your Phone, respectively. 

As the latter has just been added to Google’s My Account hub (myaccount.google.com) to make it easier to track down and sign out of a missing handset. Useful though these are, they don’t tell you who snatched your phone, which is where Lock watch comes in. This free Android app captures a photo when someone tries to unlock your phone using the wrong PIN, password or pattern. It then emails you the picture with a map of your device’s location. 

Lockwatch works silently and invisibly with your phone’s front camera and starts automatically when needed, so you don’t need to keep it running all the time.

Alternatively, Prey Anti Theft for iOS and Android (preyproject.com) lets you remotely control your phone's camera(s) to take photos of the snooper, pinpoint their location and delete all stored passwords from your device.

Find Who’s accessing your Facebook account?

Who’s accessing your Facebook account? 

Most Facebook users never bother to sign out, which means that anyone passing their PC or picking up their phone can access their accounts. 

To make sure no-one invades your Facebook privacy and posts nonsense on your behalf, click the down arrow in the top-right corner of the Facebook website, choose Settings and select Security. 

Click the Where You’re Logged In option to see a list of devices and locations, and the times and dates they were last accessed. Click ‘End activity’ next to an entry to sign out of that session, or choose End All Activity to sign out of all sessions, everywhere. 

Facebook also offers a useful feature called ‘Login notifications’, which notifies you by email, text message or push notification if your account is accessed from an unfamiliar device. You can activate this on the Security page and check which devices Facebook regards as familiar by clicking ‘Trusted browsers’.

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How To Log people out of your Google account.

Log people out of your Google account.

If you’re worried that someone might be reading your email – be it your spouse, your boss or the government – Gmail can reassure you and let you log out remotely. 

In your browser, scroll to the bottom of the Gmail page and click the tiny Details the link below ‘Last account activity’ in the bottom-right corner. This tells you if your account is open in another location and displays a list of recent activity, including the access type (such as browser or mobile) and IP address. 

Click the ‘Sign out of all other sessions’ button to log out from all other locations apart from your current one. Because your Gmail address is now used across all Google services, clicking this button will also sign you out of Search, Drive and more. 

On YouTube, click the cog icon in the top-right corner, select ‘YouTube settings’ and click the Advanced link below your name and email address. Click ‘Sign out of all YouTube sessions’ to stop anyone using your account.