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Using The WhatsApp’s All New Storage Management Tool

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WhatsApp is a highly popular instant messaging application that offers a greater number of features than any other messaging application for mobile phones. You might be very much aware that the application occupies a lot much of space on your device. There are people who always keep a look on the WhatsApp folder in the phone’s gallery. Manually managing the storage in some way that you can choose to clear all the unwanted stuff on your device, but what if you find a better way to manage the files stored within the application itself.

WhatsApp’s Storage Management Tool

  • As a first thing, you need to open the WhatsApp application on your device, then tap on the three-dot icon on the top right corner of the application window. Then tap on Settings
  • Then you will be redirected to the settings page, after which you need to select the Storage and data option
  • On the next page, tap the option Manage Storage
  • Now you will find the storage management feature of WhatsApp that has been introduced recently
  • Now scroll down and select a contact. It will show you all the media files from your chat with that particular contact
  • The app provides you various options which allows you to either clean away all the items at once or choose to delete selected items
  • You can also have a preview of the items before deleting them

That’s it. You are now done with the setup. This is how you can use the all new storage management feature of WhatsApp.

How to enable or disable WhatsApp Backup

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WhatsApp, the most popularly used messaging application for almost all platforms in fact for all the smartphone users these days. The word message has been slowly being replaced by WhatsApp and it has already declared about 1 billion active monthly users.
everyone uses WhatsApp, but everyone doesn’t know the simple tips and tricks that make us smart users of the smart messaging application. It has a lot of interesting features and the company always tries hard to make the app more updated by introducing various features like voice calling, video calling, and many more to attract more users and increase the number of active users.

Migrating phones without having to lose the chats data and all is very much possible and hassle-free as Google linking up with Facebook has provided Google Drive backup to all the WhatsApp chats. And it is even easy to enable the feature. I will let you know the process of enabling and disabling.

Requirements:

  • Gmail account
  • Latest version of WhatsApp
  • Android 2.3.4 and above

Enabling the Google Drive backup:

Open the WhatsApp application on your mobile/smartphone and go to the settings. Tap the three-dot icon on the top left corner of the screen and you will be taken to the settings menu of the app.

Now open Chats, and then click on Chat Backup.

Now you will be taken to the Google Drive Settings page where you will need to set the frequency of the backup for daily, weekly, monthly or manually as you wish to have.

And you will also find the account option where you will need to select the Google account in which you want all your WhatsApp data to be backed up. Backup over option allows you to choose between your WiFi and cellular Data. If you want you videos also to be backed up, then select the include videos option.

Disabling the Google Drive Backup feature:

This backup feature is definitely a good one for the users of the WhatsApp, but Google only allows users to store up to 15GB and after that the users have to pay for more storage and in that case, if you wish to use the storage space in Google drive for other purposes, then you must have to disable this backup feature. Here is how to do it.

In order to do this one needs to head to their official Google drive page and click on the Manage Apps option. Find the WhatsApp messenger and then click on disconnect from Google Drive. That is it you are done with the disabling of the backup for your WhatsApp.  

Here Are The Steps To Activate Hidden Mode On WhatsApp

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Do you have the feeling of being stalked by someone else online? Do you wish to protect your privacy? There are a number of ways to protect your privacy in this chat application. You can either choose to stay offline, remove your WhatsApp ‘Last Seen’, or even avoid the blue ticks by not letting your contacts know that you have read their messages.  There is actually no such hidden mode available on WhatsApp official application at least as of now. But here are a few things that you can consider to opt and set up if you are very much protective and concerned about your privacy.

Make Sure Your Last Seen Has Been Set To Nobody

  • First of all, in the WhatsApp application, you can go into your WhatsApp’s Settings, and then click on Privacy.
  • Here, you can find the option Last seen which you can change to Nobody for a start.
  • Then you can choose to turn off the Read Receipts as well – although this will mean you can’t see the Read Receipts for other people.
  • The only true way to stop appearing “online” or “typing” is to activate Airplane Mode.

That means your phone won’t be connected to the internet, and so WhatsApp can’t tell the other person what you’re doing.

Of course, if you read a text, they’ll know as soon as you reconnect to the internet.

So, do try these simple things if you don’t want others to peep into life and get into the game of guessing what you are doing.

Learn How To Turn Your Photos Into WhatsApp Stickers

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Facebook-owned highly popular messaging platform WhatsApp has been introducing cool and interesting features one after the others in recent times. The recent feature which has been winning the hearts is the stickers. The stickers are the most awaited feature in WhatsApp that various other of its competitors have but it lacks. Finally, WhatsApp has stickers now.

WhatsApp after installing the latest update will add some of the few stickers packs by default and you can even download the third-party sticker packs from the play store. WhatsApp even allows its users to create their very own custom stickers using their pictures.

Creating Custom WhatsApp stickers

  • As a first step, make sure you are having the latest version of the WhatsApp application installed on your device
  • Now just click pictures by making the expressions you want
  • Then convert the pictures into .png format with no background. You can do this by using any background eraser application of your choice. There are many such applications available online
  • Get the Background Eraser application downloaded and installed on your Android device
  • Open the application and now select the picture you have clicked earlier which you wish to convert into stickers
  • Now erase the background from the image by using magic or manual tool
  • Then crop the image and make it look like a sticker
  • Finally, save the image in the .png format as WhatsApp supports PNG format for stickers
  • Create a minimum of three such personalized stickers as WhatsApp doesn’t allow you to add sticker packs with less than three pictures
  • Now head to the Google play store and download the Personal Stickers for WhatsApp
  • Now when you open the application, the app will automatically detect all the personalized stickers that you have created
  • Then tap on the add button next to the stickers
  • Then tap on add again when a pop up asks you
  • You are done with the setup, now just close everything and open the chat window in the WhatsApp application and click on the smiley icon
  • Now tap on the stickers icon and then tap on your photo to find the stickers you have created
  • You can send them to your dear ones from now on

Isn’t it a cool way to communicate. Just try these and make your conversations more fun-filled.

How To Customize WhatsApp Notifications In Your Android Device

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Notifications were a huge problem until a year ago. It used to be too much clutter and unmanageable to the end-user. With the new update released to the messaging application, the users can now customize WhatsApp notifications based on individual contacts with custom time and notification tone.

Let us now learn the simple steps involved in making or setting up custom notifications in your Android device.

Customizing WhatsApp notifications in Android

  • Open the Settings section in your Android device and tap on Apps and Notifications. Here, look for the WhatsApp application and open it.
  • Next, tap on App notifications to get all the customization options. Here, you can go ahead and disable any type of notification you don’t want to receive.
  • Along with that, you can also manage notifications more intricately. You can tap on Group notifications and set your preferences for group chat notifications.
  • Based on your choice, you will get notifications either with sound, no sound or just no disturbance. If you choose “urgent” then both sound and a pop-up message will alert you. You can also customize other options like notification dot, message on the lock screen.
  • Similarly, for individual chats, you can customize the notification by tapping on Message notifications. Here, choose the importance level and sound. You can go through other options as well.

In this way, you can personalize your WhatsApp notifications and save time from checking unnecessary messages. WhatsApp is used by almost everyone so there is a deluge of information being forwarded from one contact to another. Also, you can mute the notification for contacts that constantly send you unsolicited messages or customize notification for contacts that are important to you. Overall, you should definitely make changes to your notification settings so that you remain disturbed.