WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging apps with over one billion active users. Of recent, there have been some added features to WhatsApp which a lot of people tend to know little about. Probably you are thinking "the little I can do with WhatsApp now is satisfying" but I tell you, knowledge is power, and the more features you know, the easier and more fun the app gets.
Hide WhatsApp Group Photos And Videos From Gallery
Most of us are bothered and frustrated by the rate at which WhatsApp group photos and videos keep piling up in our gallery. Now, WhatsApp has provided with a choice to such photos or videos visible or not.
To get this feature working, all you need to do is enter a WhatsApp group chat, tap on the group name and access the option (as shown in the image below).
Secure Your WhatsApp Using Fingerprint
This feature has been on for a while. It is quite beneficial to those who'd like to keep their conversations on WhatsApp a secret due to some personal reasons.
To secure your WhatsApp account, go to settings > accounts > privacy and scroll down to fingerprint lock.
Before using the fingerprint lock, you must know that in case the fingerprint authentication fails, there is no option to unlock using a pattern.
Hide Particular Contacts From Viewing Your WhatsApp Stories
This is also tending towards having some privacy. Whatsapp stories are a way of expressing our everyday life and if there are people on your contact list who you wouldn't want to know what's going on in your life, you can decide to prevent them from viewing your stories.
I believe the question now is "How do I hide some of my contacts from viewing my story?". Well, it's very simple – this is how you go about it.
Go to Whatsapp settings > Account > Privacy > Select Status > select "My contacts except" after which you will select specific contacts you wish to avoid and tap the tick mark below.
You can also select the “Only share with” option if you wish to share status updates only with a small number of specific contacts.
Limit Data Used By WhatsApp
WhatsApp can be data-consuming if you fail to activate some features or put some things into place. To restrict data used by Whatsapp, this is what you need to do.
Go to Settings >> Data and storage usage.
From here, you can decide what media files the app can download while eating your data.
Hide A WhatsApp Contact
People whom you have talked to recently appear very close to the top in your Whatsapp chat list. If you don't want a particular conversation to be conspicuous, you may hide it as an archive.
Just long-press the conversation and select the archive button at the top. This particular chat will now be taken to the bottom of your contact list where you can access it again.
