WhatsApp Latest Hidden Features and Tip- you should be using- 2020

WhatsApp one of the most extensively used Apps for communication helps us to connect with people & family members as & when required. It keeps us in constant touch with people & makes us more active in our social circle. In times of any emergency or any pandemic like COVID - 19, people need to remain connected with others, so that one can get relevant information & status of their near & dear one's well being & in such a situation WhatsApp becomes even more relevant

WhatsApp is a messaging app, that is adding new features almost on a regular basis to make it more productive & beneficial for Android & iOS users. It is assisting the Government of India in offering relevant & credible information to the users, regarding COVID - 19. This pandemic has made it even more important for people to remain in constant touch with their friends & relatives & WhatsApp has been playing an active role in this regard.

The messaging company has in fact stated,  that due to lockdown people are relying on WhatsApp more than ever to communicate. The video calling feature of WhatsApp is very popular, but it offers other features that are equally popular & significant from the users' point of view. Let's analyze the best 6 features of WhatsApp, that one should be aware of in the year 2020.

Top 6 WhatsApp features you should be aware of in 2020

1. WhatsApp Delete Messages

Deleting messages in WhatsApp has been made very easy. Users can delete a message by going to a person's chat & press & hold the message they want to delete. You will get to see a dustbin icon on the top side, you simply need to on that icon & delete the message you want to delete. The recipient must get the delete request in 13 hours, 8 minutes & 16 seconds otherwise the message will not get deleted. So the delete request must be received by the recipient of the message in the aforesaid time period.
It must be mentioned that this feature works only when the user & the receiver, both are using the latest version of What's app.

2. Dark Mode feature in WhatsApp

Dark Mode is a feature that has been offered recently by WhatsApp to its users. The idea is to make sure that there is less strain on the eyes of the user in low lit environments. If you want to avail of this feature you need to go to the Apps setting section. It is believed, that it will provide a big relief to the users. Once you go to the Apps setting section, you need to tap on the Chat's option & then theme. After that, you will see three options including system default, light & dark. It is worth mentioning Facebook has already introduced dark mode for its desktop version.

For people with cataract related disorders, darker mode is preferable. It is believed that long term reading in light mode may lead to myopia. In darker mode, a dark color palette is used for all screens, views & menus. The darker mode is used by a lot of users & they are loving it purely because it puts less strain on their eyes and it adds more vibrancy to the foreground content so that it appears more prominent against the darker background.

3. Share Your Current Location.

This feature is highly useful. You got to simply tap on the attach button located next to the text bar. Under location, you will find a new option called Share Live Location. Once you select this option your near & dear ones will have the option to track your location on a real-time basis.

It needs to be mentioned out here, that Live Location is enabled for single as well as group chats. The user has the liberty to share a live location to an individual user or a group. It's for the user to decide how long he or she wants to keep this facility activated. The user can stop the live sharing feature as per his or her wish. This is an end to end encrypted feature signifying barring people with whom you have shared your live location, other people will not be able to access the same.

4. Memory Management 

This feature will help to delete all audio & video files, documents, JPEG, etc, and will save the messages you need. This comes as a big relief to users, who faces space-related issues in their handset. This will bring an end to the need of manually selecting each file, so it's a great value addition for the users.

WhatsApp has provided an option by which you can save your mobile data. Almost every user receives plenty of photos or videos from other users. Therefore, you can still save your data & get notifications as well as messages. For this one needs to disable the Apps ability to download media using the mobile data.

You need to go to Settings >Data & Storage use> When using mobile data. You can tick or untick the downloading of documents, videos & photos, etc via mobile data.

5.Group Video and Voice Calls

This is a feature which comes absolutely free. If you make video calls in WhatsApp or for that matter voice calls by using WhatsApp, you don't have to pay any additional amount. You don't have to confine yourself to having just one to one conversation. The new video feature offered by WhatsApp lets you interact with as many as three people simultaneously in video or voice calls. 

If you want to talk with more than three people, you will have to use Appear .in instead.

If you want to initiate a group call, first up you need to call the first user. During the course of that call, you need to tap on the little user icon at the top right corner of the chat to add another two users one after another. It works smoothly and is as convenient as making a video or voice call with an individual user. This feature has received overwhelming support from the user, as they can make video or voice calls to more than one person at the same time.

6. Who ignored you on WhatsApp

By using this feature you can find out whether your message has been read by the receiver & if not, how long it has been ignored. Simply open any chat, press & hold the particular message then you will get to see tap on the "i" icon ( Message info) which is visible at the top of the chat window. As soon as you tap on that icon you will be able to check out when your message was read by that particular user. In a group sometimes it becomes difficult to check out who all have read your message, so this feature comes handy in such a situation. This feature lets you find out who has read your message. Therefore, it is another important feature rolled out by WhatsApp.

Conclusion:

As we have seen in this article, WhatsApp has been offering the best possible services & features to its user so that it can maintain it's status as one of the best messaging companies. It is upgrading it's feature on a constant basis to not only retain its existing users, but also add more users. It is convenient to use & at the same time, it provides some amazing features to its user, which makes it one of the best messaging companny.