WhatsApp is likely one of the hottest free messaging providers and has already being run by greater than a billion customers worldwide. Whereas there’s already an online model of WhatsApp obtainable, for Edge in addition to different browsers, the corporate has lately launched a desktop app too. The brand new WhatsApp desktop app is sort of much like what we all know as WhatApp Internet.
To make use of the all new app from WhatsApp, you first have to obtain and set up it in your Home windows 10 PC. It’s a quite simple app and required no technical experience to put in.
WhatsApp Desktop App for Home windows PC
Go to the official web site of WhatsApp and obtain the app. Ensure you obtain the app suitable together with your PC. The desktop app is accessible for each Home windows and Mac customers. It can take a couple of minutes to land in your PC relying in your web connection velocity.
Run the setup and set up it in your PC. To run the WhatsApp desktop app, you first have to scan the QR code utilizing your Smartphone. Open WhatsApp in your telephone–>Menu--> choose WhatsApp internet. Take your telephone to your PC display screen and scan the QR code to attach.
As soon as the QR code is scanned, you’ll be logged into your WhatsApp desktop app. It is rather like the app in your Smartphone with very comparable options, interface, and look. You possibly can ship messages, footage, movies, create teams, change your profiles picture or standing and do something you do in your Smartphone.
Change Profile Photograph and Standing on WhatsApp Desktop App
You possibly can change your profile picture and standing in 3 ways. Both you click on in your profile picture and or click on on tab “WhatsApp” and choose “Profile and Standing” or you possibly can undergo the Menu (the three dots).
Click on in your image to alter or take away it and click on on the Pencil icon to replace your standing. If you wish to click on a brand new picture together with your webcam and set it as your profile picture, choose Take Photograph from the drop-down menu or choose Add Photograph, if you wish to add an image out of your PC. You can too simply View or Take away the picture.
You can too use the shortcut Ctrl+P to open profile and standing.
Begin a brand new Chat/Make a brand new group
As we talked about earlier, the WhatsApp desktop app is similar because the app in your Smartphone; you possibly can simply begin a brand new chat or create a brand new group over right here. Click on on the “WhatsApp” tab and choose New Chat/ New Group or Click on on the Menu and choose New Group. You can too click on on the ‘+’ signal to start out a brand new chat.
You can too use shortcut Ctrl+N for a brand new chat.
WhatsApp Desktop App Settings
To open and regulate the settings in your desktop app, click on on the three dots (Menu) and choose Settings. You possibly can change your notifications settings, handle the blocked contacts and take a look at WhatsApp assist right here.
Chat Settings in WhatsApp Desktop App
Identical to many different options, the chat settings on this app is fairly similar as in your Smartphone. Open any chat field and click on on the three dots (menu) on the highest proper nook. You possibly can choose messages, test the contact information, delete messages or mute the chat from right here. Please notice that in your Smartphone you possibly can seek for a specific chat in your chat field, whereas the desktop app is lacking this characteristic. Additionally you can not change the wallpaper or electronic mail your chat from the desktop app, however your Smartphone app has this characteristic.
Ship Information
Whereas the desktop and Smartphone app are fairly comparable, there are nonetheless some options which can be found within the Smartphone app however not within the desktop app. Within the desktop app, you possibly can ship a picture, a video or a doc, whereas in your Smartphone you possibly can ship doc, picture, video, audio, location and phone.
Try the WhatsApp chat home windows in a Smartphone under. You possibly can ship various kinds of information to your contacts.
Archive Chat in your WhatsApp Desktop App
That is one thing I’ve by no means completed in my Smartphone app. In your desktop app, you possibly can archive any of your chats. Simply open the chat home windows and click on on Chat tab within the high left nook. Choose Archive and that’s it, your whole chat is archived. You possibly can view the archived chats from Menu.
Star Messages
Whereas the desktop app enables you to view the starred messages, there isn’t a choice to Star a message right here. In your Smartphone app, you simply have to pick out the message you need to star and click on on the Star icon within the ribbon. There isn’t any such icon within the desktop model. Try the Smartphone screenshot under. To view the starred messages in your desktop app, click on on Menu (three dots) and choose Starred.
Group Chat Settings in WhatsApp Desktop App
You possibly can create a brand new group from the Menu. To regulate the group settings in your desktop app, go to the group and proper click on. You possibly can test the group information, choose messages, mute the group, clear messages or exit the group from right here. You can too change your group icon or group standing from the desktop app.
What’s lacking right here is the choice to see the group media at one place. Right here it’s important to scroll up your entire chat window to see the group media objects, like the images and movies shared within the group, whereas the Smartphone app has a characteristic the place we are able to see the group media at one place.
Sign off from WhatsApp Desktop App
You possibly can sign off both from the WhatsApp predominant tab or through Menu. If you wish to log in once more, it’s important to scan your WhatsApp code once more utilizing the WhatsApp Internet in your Smartphone.
Some necessary shortcuts for WhatsApp Desktop App-
- Reduce — Ctrl+X
- Copy — Ctrl+C
- Paste — Ctrl+V
- Undo — Ctrl+Z
- Redo — Ctrl+Shift+Z
- Choose all — Ctrl+A
- Search — Ctrl+F
- Zoom in — Ctrl+Shift+=
- Zoom out — Ctrl+-
- Precise dimension — Ctrl+0 Subsequent chat– Ctrl+Shift+]
- Delete chat — Ctrl+Backspace
- Archive chat — Ctrl+E
- Mute — Ctrl+Shift+M
- Mark as unread — Ctrl+Shift+U
- Shut — Alt+F4
- Earlier chat — Ctrl+Shift+[
Now we have tried protecting each necessary characteristic of WhatsApp desktop app however do tell us through feedback if we’re lacking one thing.
