Whatsapp has some simple features that go unnoticed. Although simple, it is very useful. Follow these three tips to improve your WhatsApp usage on your smartphone.



How to maintain internet balance


With WhatsApp, you can keep the amount of data you use in a 4G data plan and even Wi-Fi in your home. This can be especially useful if you have contacts that send lots of pictures and videos. You can find this feature by going to "Settings" then "Data & Storage". On the next screen, you can specify whether you want to download photos, audio, videos and documents only via Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, 4G data, or not to download any media at all. Additionally, you can also check the last option if you use WhatsApp to make phone calls.

Edit the photos and videos that you send to your contacts


Before uploading photos and videos to WhatsApp, you can make some adjustments. This is useful for customizing a message or cutting a portion of the video so that it is not too heavy to send. For example, you can crop part of an image, add stickers, write text and draw with the Pencil tool. With videos, you can also use all of these tools. This can be done by clicking on the editing icons in the upper right corner of the photo and video that you selected in the camera roll before sending it to your contacts.

Preventing different media from taking up space on your smartphone



By default, WhatsApp will display photos and videos in the phone's photo gallery. This may cause you a great embarrassment when someone browses your photo gallery. If you want to prevent this from happening on your iPhone, go to Settings> Chat> Turn off Save to Camera Roll. On Android, go to Settings> Conversations> uncheck the "Show just downloaded media in the smartphone gallery" box....