Secret WhatsApp Tricks Part 2
5. Back it up
Worried about losing a year’s worth of messages? You don’t have to. WhatsApp knows how precious your chat history is to you and secures it all for you in the cloud.
How: iPhone users get the option of
backing their chat history to iCloud automatically on a
daily/weekly/monthly schedule. If it’s only selected chat histories you
desire, click on the chat you want, then the user’s name and finally
email conversation to yourself.
Android users will find the file within the WhatsApp
folder in their phone. Make sure that file, found in WhatsApp >
Databases and named msgstore.db.crypt7, is copied and transferred to the
exact same folder if you wipe your phone or get a new Android device.
6. Shortcuts to conversations
If there are certain people you chat to more often, it might be a good idea to create a shortcut for them directly on your homescreen so you don’t have to keep opening and closing WhatsApp.
How: Tap and hold on the chat (group or individual) of your choice and a tab will pop up. Select the Add Conversation Shortcut option and the chat in question will appear as the person's profile photo on your mobile desktop. Unfortunately this only applies for Android users and not iPhone ones. Sorry guys.
7. Saving media
When you’re on a 1GB data plan, every MB counts. You don’t want to be slapped with a hefty bill at the end of the month from sending stupid shareable memes and screenshots of every little thing. There’s a way to make sure that all that heavy-duty image sending won’t eat up what little complimentary data you might have in your plan.
How: Go to Settings, then Chat Settings
and then Auto-Download and tweak the settings for how you want your
received media to be downloaded. Choose Wi-Fi if you don’t want to
overload your data plan. Alternatively, you can trigger downloads
manually by switching Auto-Download to Never. You can also save the
hassle of having to clean up your camera roll every so often by tweaking
Save Incoming Media off.
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