Top 25 Best WhatsApp Tricks and Tips for iPhone,Blackberry,Android,Windows Mobile

We all know that recently Facebook bought WhatsApp messenger for $19 Billion. WhatsApp deserves this huge amount because of its awesome user interface. WhatsApp is available for all the major mobile platform OS. It is estimated that WhatsApp has more than 400 million active users around the world. Most of the people were attracted towards it because of its fast message delivery service and some other cool features. Here in this post I am sharing some cool WhatsApp tips and tricks that every WhatsApp user must know. From this post, you will get tricks to hide last seen feature, hide profile picture and status, how to use whatsApp for life long and many other WhatsApp tips and tricks. I don’t want to waste time anymore, so coming to the point. Before directly bouncing to WhatsApp Tricks, lets know some interesting things about WhatsApp.

WhatsApp has become the best messenger for mobile platform. Not only it is available for every mobile platform like Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, Nokia, Java, etc. but also it is the most used app in these platforms too. If you have internet in your mobile phone then you can send unlimited messages to anyone. The message can be long/short messages, video, audio, images etc.

Best WhatsApp Tips and Tricks:2015

1.WhatsApp Tricks: Change WhatsApp Themes

Bored of the same WhatsApp theme? Yeah you can change the wallpaper, your status, profile picture but the theme remains same. So, if you want a totally new interface for your WhatsApp then install WhatsApp PLUS Holo [1] . It provides the default WhatsApp theme “HOLO” but there are plenty of other ways to customize your WhatsApp interface. Other themes are provided too.

2. Hide Last seen feature in WhatsApp:

WhatsApp shows ‘last seen’ time at the bottom of the conversation telling your friends about the last time you were on WhatsApp. This will be helpful sometimes, but most of the time this feature troubles you when you want to stop the conversation or want to hide yourself from others. Earlier there are many third party Applications available in Google Playstore to hide ‘last seen’ feature. By the recent update, you can use this feature without installing any other apps. Download the latest version of WhatsApp from the official website to enjoy this feature.

To hide last seen feature, Open WhatsApp, Go to Settings > Account > Privacy > Last Seen. There you can select three options, Everyone, My contacts, Nobody. Select any one of them.

3. Lock WhatsApp with Password - Best WhatsApp Trick

Generally we do personal chat on our whatsApp and we don’t want others to read our personal messages, as whatsApp doesn't have any login details and other person can easily read your personal messages. There are many Apps to block the unauthorized access to your WhatsApp messages. The best App we found is WhatsApp Lock.
Download WhatsApp Lock [2] from the link below and it protects your messages with a password. So that any other person cannot enter to your Whatsapp.

4. Send PDF, ZIP, APK files via WhatsApp:

As we all know that WhatsApp doesn’t support to send other files than audio and video formats. Sometimes you may have to send some Apk files, ZIP, PDF or files of any other format. By using this cool trick you can send files of any type. Download Whats Packed 2 ads, from this App you can send a PDF, ZIP or any other files to your whatsApp contacts. The person who is receiving the file also have to install this App.

5. Run Multiple WhatsApp Account on Android

This is most wanted WhatsApp trick as many users have dual-SIM support in their smartphone and they want to run separate WhatsApp account from both SIM card numbers at the same phone.
For this, install SwitchMe [3] App. The app lets you to create separate use profiles on your smartphone which can have different accounts, system settings, apps and data. After installation, open SwitchMe and create a new user profile. Shift to this user profile and you can connect WhatsApp with your second SIM card number.

6. Extend WhatsApp Free Trial Period:

As we all know that WhapsApp is not available for free, we only get a free trial period for 1 year to use it. After one year we have to pay approximately 1$ to use it. By using this cool WhatsApp trick you can extend your Whatsapp for one more year, truly speaking this is a very simple trick that works fine for now.

Just before completing your free trial period, delete your WhatsApp account permanently, and then create a new account. This requires less than 5 minutes, but you can extend your WhatsApp account for one more year. To delete your account, go to Settings > Account > Delete My Account. Enter your mobile number in the text field and delete your account. Now create another new account same as you created for the first time.

Now go to account and check your status, you will be increasing your free trial period for one year.

7. Recover deleted Conversions:

Sometime you may accidentally delete your WhatsApp conversations, and if you want to get it back. Then this trick is especially for you. Generally WhatsApp backups all the conversations and it will be stored in phone’s memory.

If you want to restore conversations, just uninstall the WhatsApp and re-install again. While re-installing WhatsApp, it will ask you whether to restore messages history or to continue without restoring. Now, click on Restore to get back your deleted conversations.

8. Download WhatsApp for PC / Laptop:

Yes!!! Now you can even install WhatsApp Messenger on your PC or Laptop and start chatting with your Friends on WhatsApp. To install WhatsApp on your Computer or Laptop you need to download an Emulator software. The best Emulator software we found is Bluestacks. Download the Bluestacks for official website. Then after run it on your PC or Laptop. After installing Bluestacks, open it and search for WhatsApp, install it and start using WhatsApp on PC.

9. Create Shortcuts for Important Contacts:

Here is a simple trick to create a shortcut for WhatsApp contacts. In Android phones you can easily create a shortcut for a Group or a Contact by having a long press on it. A tab will pop ups and then select add conversation shortcut. That's it; a shortcut will be created for any contact or group.
But it is not much simple in case of IOS, for that you have to install a third party application called 1TapWA [4] to get this feature. This app also has some extra features like photo editing and action scheduler.

10. Trick to Stop Auto downloading images and videos:

WhatsApp has a default feature of automatically downloading all the media files such as images and videos. Sometimes this may kill your mobile data and battery life when you have a very low data balance on your mobile. So this trick will be helpful to stop auto download of images or video.

To disable auto download feature, open WhatsApp go to Settings > Chat settings > Media auto-download. There you will find the option as shown in above screen shot, change the settings as per your need. Here I stopped to download only video files on mobile data.

11. Cool WhatsApp trick to Hide the sent image with other Image

Sounds cool right? yes you can hide the images that you have sent to your friends inside any other wierd images. Magiapp tricks App for Android and Fhumb App for iPhone allows you to hide the sent image inside other images.

This is how the app works, the image that you have sent is replaced with the other image, when they click on the image they will be seeing the orginal image. Unfortunately this trick won't work for Blackberry and Windows phones.

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12. Get your WhatsApp Statics:

Want to know how much time you spend daily on WhatsApp? You can get the information about sent messages, received messages, media bytes sent/received by going to Settings > Account > Network Usage. If you are not satisfied with this statistics then you must download WATSTAT App [7] , this App will give the information regarding total time spent, message distribution, active timings and much more about your WhatsApp usage on colorful graphs.

13. Hide your WhatsApp profile picture:

Hiding Profile Photo option is only available for the latest version of WhatsApp. If you are not using the latest version of WhatsApp then download [8] it from here. After installing just go to Settings > Account privacy.Then click on Profile Photo, select any of the three options according to your needs - Everyone, My contacts, Nobody.

14. Stop WhatsApp Images appearing in Photo Album:

Images or Video files sent to you on WhatsApp by your friends, crush or business partners automatically appears on photo Gallery or any other photo viewer Apps. Sometimes there may be private images, so if you want to stop your WhatsApp images appearing on Gallery, follow below the trick for both Android and IOS.

For Android users: To stop WhatsApp images appearing on image gallery you need to have a File Manager Application. Here I am using ES File explorer App. Now Open ES File Explorer App, Go to WhatsApp folder, open WhatsApp images folder and create a file with name .nomedia. To do this Tap New button in the lower left, choose File and create a file with name .nomedia

For IOS users, just go to Settings > Privacy > Photos and uncheck WhatsApp.

15. Create Fake Conversation on WhatsApp - Best WhatsApp Tips and Tricks

Ever thought of creating a fake conversion to prank your friends? Yes you can create fake conversation by using Whatsaid App. By using this App you can easily create fake conversation on WhatsApp and prank your friends.

16. WhatsApp trick to share a file More than 16MB size:

By default WhatsApp doesn't allow to share a file of size more than 16MB, Although images and audio messages doesn't occupy more than 16MB but when it comes to Videos, they may occupy more than 16MB size. To send video's of size more than 16MB you have to compress the size of video. By using Video Converter Android, you can compress the actual size of videos without losing much quality and later you can send video on WhatsApp

17. Trick to Install WhatsApp on Mobile without SIM Card:

For this trick you need to have two mobile phones, one to verify the number and other to use WhatsApp on it (Without SIM Card) and a SIM Card with mobile number that is not registered on WhatsApp.

This number is used to configure your WhatsApp on Mobile that doesn't have SIM Card.

First of all connect your mobile to internet through Wi-Fi or Dongle, download WhatsApp on it. Then register with the mobile number that we discussed earlier. Now you will see a message with verification fails, don't worry you will receive the verification code within 10 minutes. Now you will get an SMS with verification code to the registered number, select 'call me to verify the code' option and verify the code. That's it now can use WhatsApp on your mobile without having a sim card.

18. WhatsApp Trick to Migrate Conversation from one Phone to other:

Here is simple trick to transfer all WhatsApp conversions from old phone to new phone. Just before installing WhatsApp on your new phone, take a while and go to File manager > WhatsApp Folder > Databases on your old Android phone. Now copy all the backup files to your PC. Now install WhatsApp on your new Phone, place these files at the same location on new Phone and restart the Application. That's it now you can see all your old conversations on your new phone.

19. Change Phone number linked with WhatsApp:

Do you want to change your SIM Card and continue with the same Phone, then you no need to uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp to change WhatsApp number.

There is a default option available on WhatsApp to change mobile numbers. For that go to Settings > Account > Change number. Enter both old and new phone numbers and press Done.

Now verify your new number, all the Groups, messages will be migrated to your new Phone number.

20. Hide your Mobile number in WhatsApp Groups:

Do you often involve in WhatsApp Group chats with unknown people? If you want to keep your mobile number disclose to others then this is an awesome trick for you.

1. First of all, uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp on your Android Phone.

2. At the time of verification, put your mobile in flight mode or change message the center number.

3. Choose 'Verify through sms' and enter your email id and Click on send. Now Without wasting a single second, click on Cancel. This terminates the authorization process.

4. Now you have to spoof that message, for that download Spoof Text message [9] .

5. Now go to Outbox > Copy the message details of Spoof App > send it to Spoofed Verification

6. Use th e below details

To: +447900347295

From: +(Country code)(mobile number)

Message: Enter you email id

Now a message will be sent through that spoofed number. Now that Spoofed number is visible to others instead of your original mobile number.

21. Use WhatsApp Without Any Mobile Number

WhatsApp is required for you to have a mobile number in order to create a WhatsApp account for some reasons if you don’t want to use your phone number, you can still use WhatsApp, send/receive messages from it. How to do this WhatsApp hack? Well, here are the 

steps:

Uninstall WhatsApp if you already have it installed in your mobile phone. You can keep WhatsApp images/video files.

Download and Install WhatsApp again

Block your message service by simply shifting to flight mode. Now, open WhatsApp and add your number to it. So, it will not able to send message to server and verify your mobile number.

As verification is still incomplete and messages are blocked, Whatsapp will ask you to choose alternative method to verify. Choose ‘Verify through SMS’ and enter your email address. Click ‘Send’ and without waiting for a second, click ‘Cancel’. This terminates the authorization process.

Now, you are required to spoof message. Install Spoof Text Message [10] for Andriod and Fake-a-Message [11] for iPhone

Go to your Ou tbox -> Copy the message details to spoofer app -> Send it to spoofed verification.

Use these details in your spoofed message: To: +447900347295 From: +(Country code)(mobile number) Message: Your email address

A message will be sent to that spoofed number and you can now use this number to connect with friends.

Links

1. ^{^} WhatsApp PLUS Holo (whatsapp-plus-holo.en.softonic.com)
2. ^{^} WhatsApp Lock (play.google.com)
3. ^{^} SwitchMe (play.google.com)
4. ^{^} 1TapWA (www.1tapps.com)
5. ^{^} Magiapp tricks App (play.google.com)
6. ^{^} Fhumb App (itunes.apple.com)
7. ^{^} WATSTAT App (play.google.com)
8. ^{^} download (play.google.com)
9. ^{^} Spoof Text message (play.google.com)
10. ^{^} Spoof Text Message (play.google.com)
11. ^{^} Fake-a-Message (itunes.apple.com)

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