WhatsApp is definitely the best chatting app ever made for
Android & iPhone. Though there are many other apps competing with WhatsApp
which are hiring filmstars to get you to use them (WeChat),
I don’t see WhatsApp losing its market anytime soon. Further after Facebook bought
Whatsapp, the future of Whatsapp is even more secure. After the acquirement
Whatsapp has seen many changes which include the option to hide your profile
picture, last seen time, status and more. Apart from that, there’s lot more you
can do with Whatsapp, and that’s why I decided to write this piece
containing some useful WhatsApp tricks.
NOTE: We don’t teach you to hack into your friend’s
Whatsapp account or access your girlfriend’s WhatsApp account without her
consent.
WhatsApp Tricks ~ Top 13
Hide WhatsApp Last Seen Time
WhatsApp is the best chatting app. The only problem with it
is that it doesn’t allow you to hide your last seen time from your friends or
stalkers. WhatsApp for iPhone does, but it’s Android, Windows and BB
counterpart doesn’t.
Well, I looked for ways, apps anything that could help me in
hiding my last seen to find a couple of working techniques. So if you’re
looking forward to disable your last seen at time-stamp, follow this link.
Update 1: Whatsapp for Android now allows you to hide
your last seen time. You no longer need to use additional apps to hide your
last seen time.
Use WhatsApp Without Your Mobile Number
Do you have a mobile number but for some reason do not want
to use it on WhatsApp? Do you often indulge in group chats with several unknown
people to whom you don’t wanna reveal your phone number? Do not worry. You can
do that. Here’s how:
1. If you are already using WhatsApp, uninstall it from your
device completely. You can keep the SD card files i.e. the images if you want.
Download and install it again.
2. Now when you open WhatsApp it’ll ask you to verify your
phone number. It automatically sends a verification message to its server. But
if this happens your number gets registered with them. So block your message
service. You can simply put your phone on flight mode so that all network
connections are disabled. You can alternatively change the message center
number. Remember the old one of course.
3. It’ll ask you to choose an alternate method to verify.
Choose ‘Verify through SMS’ and give your email address. Click on ‘Send’ and
without waiting even for a second click on ‘Cancel’. This terminates the
authorization process.
4. Now you have to spoof that message. You can try this for Android andFake-a-Message for iOS.
5. Go to your Outbox -> Copy the message details to spoofer
app -> Send it to spoofed verification.
6. Use the following details.
To: +447900347295
From: +(Country code)(mobile number)
Message: Your email address
To: +447900347295
From: +(Country code)(mobile number)
Message: Your email address
7. A message will be sent through that spoofed number. You can
use this number to connect with your friends.
I don’t know if you should be trying this or not. I don’t
find it useful anyway. It’s always a good idea to use your real phone
number.
Recover Deleted Messages
Recover deleting messages on WhatsApp after you’ve deleted
it from within the app is possible without any additional recovery software.
WhatsApp by default stores all your conversations and activity on your SD card.
This is helpful if you ever lose your messages or to view your messages
after you’ve deleted it from WhatsApp.
Go to: SD card -> WhatsApp -> Databases and
look for two files named –msgstore-yyyy-mm-dd.1.db.crypt5 and msgtore.db.crypt.
The first file contains all the messages you’ve sent or
received in the last seven days (yyyy-mm-dd.1 correspond to the respective
year, month and day and the 1 after dd signifies that it was the first backup
taken on that day) while the second file contains all messages sent or received
on that day.
To restore your Whatsapp messages, rename msgtore.db.crypt toOLDmsgtore.db.crypt or
something to identify the old backup easily, so 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 and when prompted choose Restore. The chat file you saved with the
name msgtore.db.crypt is restored. Restoring an earlier database,
automatically clears your current chat history and there’s no way to merge your
old database and your current chat history.
While you cannot open these files with a text editor since
they’re encrypted, you can anyways use Whatsapp
Xtract to read your Whatsapp database on computer.
Send Two Images in One
Have you received an image where at first you see a hot chic
and when you click on the image you get to see a monkey? There’s no trick
but an app to do it. Try Magiapp
tricks for WhatsApp for android and FhumbApp for
iPhone. Using them you can hide your best pics inside others. Unfortunately
there’s not much you can do if you own a Windows phone or BlackBerry except
forwarding those images and even then you can’t be sure if it’ll work.
Get Contacts Profile Pictures
When you are checking out your friend’s profile picture
there’s no way to store it. WhatsApp doesn’t provide an option to save the
image. Of course you can take a screenshot, but then you’ll have to crop the
unnecessary part. Do not worry, Whatsapp saves all the profile pictures you
view automatically which you can find in SD card -> WhatsApp ->
Profile Pictures. The images will be associated to you friend’s mobile number
and not his name. Have an easy time searching for the image
Change Your Friends’ Profile Picture
Nah, you’ll not be making the change globally, but changing
your friend’s profile picture only on your phone is sufficient to scare the
hell outta him. Here’s how you can do it.
1. Choose a profile picture for your friend. Use Google Image
search for cute looking monkeys and donkeys or weird looking people.
2. Resize the image to 561×561 pixels using Paint or Photoshop
and name it with your friend’s mobile phone number.
3. Save the image in SD card -> WhatsApp -> Profile
Pictures. Overwrite an existing image if required.
4. Disable WiFi and data network. If you don’t WhatsApp will
automatically update the picture. Now show it to your friend who’ll panic
instantly!
Note: This is not a hack, but simply a trick to change
your friend’s profile picture only on your device. This is meant for fun
purpose only.
Create a Fake Conversation
Noticed the fake conversations between Sachin Tendulkar,
Virat Kohli, Rahul Dravid and Suresh Raina prevailing on Facebook where in they
make fun of each other? Ever wanted to do that yourself? With the help of an
app likeWhatSaid you can easily create fake conversations and
play pranks on your friends. Don’t use it to spoil someone’s life though,
please. There isn’t a similar app for iPhone though.
Update: WhatSaid was recently removed from the Google
Play Store. Here’s an alternate link to download
WhatSaid.
Send PDF, APK, ZIP & More
Unlike most chat apps, WhatsApp doesn’t allow you to send
documents. But with an additional app like Cloud Send you can send PDFs, APKs, Word documents and
more using WhatsApp. A better way is to install Google Drive on your mobile
phone, upload the documents and send your friend the link to the documents.
Hide Your Profile Picture
I’m not really sure why you’d want to hide your profile
picture. No one looks that bad to be not seen by people. Anyways with an
application like WhatsApp Plus, you can hide your profile picture on
Android. WhatsApp Plus is not available on the Play Store and there are several
fakes available online so make sure you download it from a reliable source like
the one I shared. A better way is to not set a profile picture if you don’t
want others to see how you look on screen. Thus you’ll save on memory!
Update: You no longer need to use WhatsApp Plus to hide
your Whatsapp profile picture. You can hide your profile picture by simply
navigating to WhatsApp Settings -> Account -> Privacy -> Profile photo
and choose My contacts or Nobody. An alternate to this is to simply not set a
profile picture.
Stop Automatic Media Download
By installing the same app, WhatsApp Plus you can stop
WhatsApp from downloading images automatically.
Update: You no longer need to use WhatsApp Plus to
prevent auto-downloading of images or other media. WhatsApp now allows you to
control it from the pap itself. Simply go to Settings -> Chat Settings ->
Media auto-download -> Check ‘When using mobile data’, ‘When connected on
WiFi’ and ‘When roaming’ one by one and uncheck all the sub-options!
Find Out Your WhatsApp Statistics
Want to know who texts you the most? Want to know if that
girl or guy has a crush on you? Find it using WhatStat for Android or iPhone.
It shows you everything in neat organized graphs. I first came across this app
when a friend uploaded some graphs he had created using WhatStat on our college
group on WhatsApp. If you are okay with simple statistics, you can view your
statistics by going to Settings -> Account -> Network Usage.
Change Phone Number Linked With WhatsApp
Bought a new sim card? Want to change your old number
associated with WhatsApp without losing access to the groups you had joined?
Here’s how you can do it. Go to Settings -> Account -> Change Number ->
Type both your old and new phone number and hit ‘Done’.
Lock WhatsApp
Do your friends often use your mobile phone? Does someone
sneak peek at your WhatsApp messages? Well a way to prevent that from happening
is to lock WhatsApp. To lock Whatsapp on BlackBerry follow this
link and to lock WhatsApp on Android follow this link.
Schedule a Message on WhatsApp
I’ve a bad memory. I often forget my parents’ anniversary
and my best friend’s birthday. Are you like me? May be you should try
scheduling a message on WhatsApp! And never forget a birthday, anniversary
ever. Also if you are among those wishing people good morning and night
everyday, you should use a WhatsApp message scheduler to save some time!
These are just a couple of interesting things you can do
with WhatsApp. As I end this post I’m still looking for more WhatsApp tricks
and I will continue to share all of them here as I come across them. If you’ve
any WhatsApp tricks to share for any platform just comment and I’d be more than
happy to include it in this list with proper credits. Stay tuned!
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