YOGYAKARTA - WhatsApp is currently the most widely used instant messaging application on smartphones. Almost all smartphone users in the world, including Indonesia, use WhatsApp to communicate with their closest people every day.

The most widely used features in the WhatsApp application are sending and receiving messages, making regular and video calls, and sharing statuses with connected people in contacts.

However, not many know that WhatsApp has a feature that allows its users to see things in more detail with their conversations to a practical way to keep your phone from storing too many files.

The secret features that are rarely known by many WhatsApp users have been summarized by the VOI team in the article below.

See Who You Chat With Most On WhatsApp

If you want to know who you communicate with the most on WhatsApp, users can check it by tapping on the 3 dots icon within the app.

Next, you can click the icon at the top right corner and select settings, then select Data & Storage, and open Manage storage.

A list of contacts that message you the most on WhatsApp will appear. You can also tap on each contact to see more details.

Delete Messages Automatically

Apart from knowing who you are in contact with the most on WhatsApp, users can also delete messages automatically. You can enable the "Disappearing Messages" feature so that all conversational messages disappear from the chat room after seven days.

By activating this feature, you can also make the phone memory not full quickly, and make it easier for users to delete messages that are old.

How to activate the automatic message deletion feature is to enter the WhatsApp application. Open a chat either personal or group, then tap the name of the contact or group at the top, and then activate the option 'Disappearing Messages'

Export Conversations

If before, you can delete messages automatically, then you can export conversations that you feel are important to save. While viewing a conversation, users can tap the menu button, then select "More" and "Export Chat".

Delete Files Quickly

In addition to deleting messages automatically, users can also delete messages quickly. You can delete files that are not used anymore so that the storage space is not full.

If the user keeps saving files that are not used, it can affect the performance of your smartphone. While deleting files one by one from each chat will be a hassle.

However, you don't have to worry because you can delete files quickly. The trick, the user enters the WhatsApp application, then selects settings. Click storage and data, then scroll to the manage storage column.

Under the 'Review and Delete' section, users can tap the 'Larger Than 5 MB' or 'Forwarded Many Times' tab. Next, select the file to be deleted, and select "Delete"

Those are the features contained in the WhatsApp application but are rarely known by its users. You can also use one of the features to make your work easier or for other purposes.


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