How To Find Files In WhatsApp Using The Advanced Search Feature
How to Find Files in the WhatsApp Application Using the Advanced Search Feature (Strategi.id)

YOGYAKARTA - WhatsApp has a feature that can be used to search for content that has been sent or received by its users using the Advanced Search feature.

With this feature WhatsApp users can search for content in your WhatsApp chats in more detail according to the files you set on the search engine.

The Advanced Search feature itself is a development of the Search feature that previously existed in the WhatsApp application. If the previous Search feature could only search for text chats, the Advanced Search feature can search for files that match your search keywords, including document files and photos.

Quoted from Android Authority, there are at least 6 types of files that you can find using Advanced Search including photos, GIFs, videos, documents, links or links, and audio.

To use the Advanced Search feature in the WhatsApp application, users can follow the steps set by VOI team below.

How to Use the Advanced Search Feature on WhatsApp

To use the WhatsApp Advanced Search feature on your mobile application, users can select the search icon in the upper right corner of your WhatsApp main page.

After that, do the search filter you want. As explained earlier, there are 6 types of files that you can find with WhatsApp Advanced Search, namely photos, videos, links or links, GIFs, audio, and documents.

Users can select a file type that they want to search for, and type certain keywords in the search field to search for that file in your WhatsApp application.

After you type a keyword in the search engine by filtering the file type, the search results will display messages related to that keyword as well as related files that have been sent in your WhatsApp application.

Furthermore, the user can select one of the messages that appear from the search results. You will also enter the chat page of the contact who sent or you sent the file.

That way you can more easily find out the files you've sent via WhatsApp messages. Not only text messages, but also other files.

That was the way that you can follow to use the WhatsApp Advanced Search feature on your device which can be used to search for certain files that you have sent or received on your WhatsApp.

You can reopen the file as long as the user hasn't permanently deleted it from the WhatsApp application on your device.


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