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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.

Whatsapp introduces new privacy settings

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Whatsapp Groups

Whatsapp became a part of everyone’s life.  There are a lot of issues people are waiting to be corrected by the Whatsapp. The company has fixed one such feature at present.

Every Whatsapp user may have been participating in at least some of the Whatsapp Groups.  Sometimes people join themselves to the Whatsapp Groups because they want to get the information from the particular group. Most of the times the contacts they saved on their phonebook, adds them into unknown groups without the prior consent of the user.

It becomes very annoying to leave from the groups people join us. Whatsapp users continue in the Whatsapp Groups for the sake of their friends even though they are not at all interested in such groups. Finally,  a solution has arrived for the issue. WhatsApp introduced new privacy settings for the groups. Now onwards there are three new privacy options available for you for the Whatsapp Groups.

The first one is, you can approve or disapprove every Whatsapp Group invitation sent by the users. If you selected this option, for example, if somebody tries to add you to a Whatsapp Group, you will get a notification immediately regarding that. You can choose whether to join or not. The second one in the Group Privacy Options is you can get group invitations from those contacts which you have already saved on your phone book. Here you must remember one thing, any contact which is there on your contacts list can join you into the Whatsapp Groups. So you need to save contacts wisely.

The final option is,  anybody can join you in whatever group it may be, as they are doing right now.  You shouldn’t select this option, to maintain the privacy. The new Whatsapp Group Privacy settings have already come to existence. If you couldn’t find the new settings, you have to wait patiently for them until they arrive for your account.

Save your device memory from WhatsApp media

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WhatsApp which is undoubtedly the most used messaging application with about 1.2 billion people worldwide using it. Probably it is the first smartphone android application that every user downloads immediately after purchasing a new smartphone. It has become the means of texting all over these days and it even replaced the word texting.

But for some people who don’t know how to properly and completely use the application, this can be quite an annoying application automatically downloaded media filling up the device memory and exhausting the data. Don’t worry, here is how you can stop the media from automatically downloading.

  • Open the WhatsApp application
  • Now from the chats page, click on the three-dot icon which you can find on the top right corner of the screen
  • Then from the drop down menu select Settings
  • You will be then headed to the settings page, here click on Chat
  • Then tap on the Media download option
  • Here you can see three options as when using mobile data, when using WiFi and when roaming
  • Just tap on each option at a time and then uncheck the three options available there which are Images, Audio and video

So, now you are done and from now on, you will have to download the media before you can see it. However, WhatsApp automatically downloads the audio messages and you can’t stop that. Save your device memory and data by making these changes in your WhatsApp.

Use WhatsApp as a personal bookmarking and note taking app

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WhatsApp, the most popular messaging application which has about a billion monthly active users is a really great application for communication these days. But have you ever thought of using WhatsApp messenger application as a bookmarking tool or a note taking app? Yes, with the help of a simple tip you can use your most favourite messaging app as a bookmarking tool. Just follow the simple steps below

  • Open the WhatsApp messenger application
  • Create a group with just one person in it and name it as Bookmarks and notes
  • On the home screen of the app just click the three dotted icon on the top right of the screen
  • Now just select one of your contacts and click on the arrow icon on the bottom to continue
  • Now enter the group name as Bookmarks and notes
  • Finally, click on the tick icon, then the group will be created
  • Now just open the group and remove the person you added before creating the group
  • You can do that by just opening the group, clicking on the group name, you can find the members of the group there
  • Just long press the contact whom you added earlier while creating the group and click on remove the contact option from the pop-up window

Now you are the only member of that group and it can be your note taking app or you can even use it to save your bookmarks and links that you want to view at a later time.

How to rollback to old version of WhatsApp on android devices

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WhatsApp has been adding lots of features regularly and the recent update is the Status feature which is very much similar to the Instagram Stories. But this update has received a huge negative uproar, unlike the previous updates.

Many people haven’t been updating their app as they don’t like this update and they don’t want to miss the status feature which got disappeared in the latest updated app. But some may have already updated their app and are regretting that a lot. Don’t worry WhastApp is in the plans of bringing the most popular feature back to the users again with a changed name tagline. But if you are among the users who are very much desperate to rollback to the previous version rather than waiting for the next update, then here is the process for you. This process doesn’t require the android devices to be rooted.

  • Just download the apk file of the older version of the WhatsApp, which can be 2.17.60 from the website apkmirror
  • Now just install the apk file by allowing the unknown sources in the android device
  • Finally just setup your account and then you will see the old WhatsApp.

So, use this simple process to rollback to the old version of the app on your android device.