Five Secret Tricks on WhatsApp that Users need to Know

Now a lot of people use WhatsApp just to converse with their friends which is the case with an average user. But however, there are a lot of things that even an average user should be aware of just for the sake of it or even abuse it towards your favors.

WhatsApp as a chatting platform has come a long way before acquisition and after the acquisition there are a lot of numerous feature add-ons to even the inception of a desktop app, the Facebook-owned instant-messaging platform has surely found newer ways to enhance user-experience more significantly only to the better or worse. While some of the features are extremely useful, there are ones that are complex which cannot be easily visible or known about unless it comes into the limelight only after a bit of research. We'll help you explore about some bits of them.

WhatsApp comes along with a few editing options which aren't really been detailed in any blog posts from the developers on their blog portal. However, users can make text bold, italicize it or even strikethrough texts. Users have to just place an asterisk (*) at the starting and ending of a word to make it appear bold. For italics, the process is similar but you have to place an underscore (_) in place of asterisk. For strikethrough, users need to add (~) at the beginning and end of the word. While a lot of people might know this but for the ones who don't you can actually can escape those annoying double-blue checklists which notifies the other person that you have already seen a text. This is possible with opting out of read receipts in the privacy section which also includes options for users to actually let people see their status, last seen time and even their profile pictures. However, there's a catch. The same thing happens to you. You won't be able to see the same when the user has everything disabled.