Top 7 Whatsapp Tricks You Should Know

    Whatsapp is the top chatting app which was bought for 19 billion dollars by Facebook. Even though many chat apps came up like Telegram, Line, etc., Whatsapp still stands at the top. Whatsapp provides a very good messaging experience to its users. Here are some tips and tricks for you to get a lot more out of Whatsapp.

1. How to Backup and Restore Whatsapp chats

    Whatsapp actually creates a backup of your chat automatically. But you can also create a backup manually, by following the simple steps :

For android phones, 

• Go to Settings  
• Then select Chat settings  
• Finally select Backup Conversations. 

    And a backup of your conversations will be made. Doing this won’t make a backup of your media files. So you need to go to your file manager and make a backup of the media files located in /sdcard/WhatsApp/Media.

For iOS, 

• Go to Settings  
• Then to Chat Settings  
• Select Chat Backup, and finally select the Back Up Now option. 

    You won’t be able to restore the backup directly. When you’ve uninstalled and installed Whatsapp again, you will be asked if you want to restore.

  2.Hide the ‘Last Seen’ Timestamp.

    Whatsapp shows your friends the last time you were on Whatsapp. Some of you might not like this option. It can be easily disabled.

For iOS , 

• Go to Settings  
• Then to Chat Settings  
• Select Advanced and set Last Seen Timestamp to Off mode.

For Android users, 

• You’ll have to install another app like Hide WhatsApp Status From Here. 

   This app will disable Wi-Fi and data connection when you open Whatsapp. On exiting Whatsapp, the connections go back on and your messages will be sent.
 

  3.  How to Hide Whatsapp Photos from Gallery

    Some of you might not like your whatsapp photos appearing in your gallery. Don’t worry, you can hide them from your gallery.

For iOS, 

• Go to Settings
• Go to Privacy 
• Select Photos 
• Turn the WhatsApp option off.

    For Android, 

• Just download Whatsapp Images Hide From Here.  

  The app will have an option to hide whatsapp photos.   
   

 4.   How to Change Your Whatsapp Number

       If you have changed your phone number and you’d like to change the number on you whatsapp just follow these simple steps.

• Go to Settings 
• Then Account and
• Change number 
• You should enter your old and new phone numbers in the desired fields  
• After that press Done 
• Verify your new phone number.

5.   How to Lock Whatsapp 

    Fed up of others reading your whatsapp messages? Don’t worry you have an app for that too. 

• Just download Whatsapp Lock From Here For android Users And 
• For BlackBerry you Can Download Lock For Whatsapp From Here.

6.   Recover Deleted Messages

        
     You can easily recover your deleted messages. Just follow the simple steps.

• Go to SD card and
• Whatsapp -Databases then
• Look for two files, namely, msgstore-yyyy-mm-dd.1.db.crypt5 (yyyy-mm-dd signifies the respective year, month and day) and msgtore.db.crypt.

    The first file contains all the messages you have sent or received in the last seven days while the second file contains all messages sent or received on that day.

    To restore your Whatsapp messages:  

• Rename msgtore.db.crypt to OLDmsgtore.db.crypt or something to identify the old backup easily(in case if something goes wrong, you can try again)  
• Select the database you wish to restore from the files left and rename it to msgtore.db.crypt 
• Uninstall and re-install Whatsapp, when prompted choose Restore. 

    The chat file you saved with the name msgtore.db.crypt is restored. Restoring an earlier database, deletes your current chat history.    

7. Get Whatsapp Chat Heads On Android

   With an app called Whatsapp Chat Heads, Download From Here.
You can get the picture of your friend on your conversation background.

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Khurshid Kamar

    Khurshid Kamar is a student of Computer Science Engineering who has merged his passion for all things technological with his enthusiasm for writing. This computer geek spends most of his free time looking up the latest what’s what in technology and the rest, watching movies and anime, listening to rock music and Eminem, hanging out with other nerdy friends and quoting Fight Club. Connect with him on Google+