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How to Use Whatsapp - 2019 Beginner's Guide
Hey everyone in today's video, I wanted to show you how to use WhatsApp. So if you're new to what's an app, you don't think you're getting the most out of the app in this video. I want to walk you through exactly. We had to use WhatsApp and everything that's app has to offer a few years back. WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook.
So like Instagram, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook and it was recently rebranded as WhatsApp from Facebook, but nothing much has changed inside of WhatsApp. They do have some new features that I'm going to talk about as well when we go over that. So let's go ahead and jump into the app store or Google play store.
Look for what's app. We're going to go ahead and install it downloaded. I'll show you how to set up your account and everything DAP has to offer. Let's jump into the form right now.
So what is WhatsApp? WhatsApp is basically a messaging app with the ability to make phone calls and to do video chat. You could also send attachments, photos, videos, and it's very popular because you could do all this for free, just using your cell phone data. You don't have to pay any additional money for using that and at the time of the recording right now, what's app has over 300 million active users. You could download what's app spelled exactly like this from the app store or the Google play store for Android and it's a much more popular app on Android, especially outside of the United States because of the free calls and text.
I'm going to use the iPhone version here, but it's basically the same on Android. Let's look for what's an app here and it's called WhatsApp messenger. I'm going to open it. There's also what's an app business and it's a business version of what's an app that I have a different video about. So you could check that out.
I'll link it in the description. Let's open WhatsApp here, and I completely deleted the app. So we could start from scratch. This is the homepage. You have to press agree and continue, and what's app will use your phone number to connect. It's a really simple process. So if you don't have an account yet typing your phone number here and choose your country, press down on top and WhatsApp will most likely send you a verification text message to this number. Go ahead and type that in and now you could enter your name and add a profile picture, which is optional. I'll just go ahead and type in my name here and I'll press done and now we have our account set up. So let's look at the app.
The main menu is at the bottom of the page. You have status calls, camera, chat, and settings, and we'll go through the most common ones here. The most used option is sending a message to someone else. So you could get there by clicking the chat icon and here you basically have a couple of options. You could tell a friend about WhatsApp that's for people that don't have WhatsApp, and you could basically send them an invite.
If you press that you could mail messages or more and let them know to download WhatsApp, or you could start messaging to start messaging. You could press start messaging here, or the easier way is to press the compose icon on the top right and because I give it access to my phone number. In the beginning, it has access to my contacts here so I could see exactly which one of my friends and family members here in alphabetical order have what's app.
I could search on top for their name by pressing the search option. Or I could press new contact and I could add someone with their phone number here to WhatsApp. If you don't see them here, they probably don't have WhatsApp installed on their phone. So you have to go ahead and invite them on the previous page.
You could also press new group chat here, and it's going to allow you to, as you could see. At 256 different people to the group and then you could go ahead and message that group. If you want it to use it as a group chat, we won't do that here. We'll just go ahead and search for someone that we want to send an individual message to and I'm going to send a message here to Jordan. So I'm going to select his name and we're inside of that chat window now. Let's look at the options we have here right here in the center. We have the plus sign. Go ahead and press plus, plus we'll give you access to the camera, photo, library, documents, location, and context.
So you could go ahead and send any of these options here as an attachment. That's what the plus option does. So if I press photo and video, for example, I could go ahead and select a picture of my dog here. And if I press the airplane icon on the bottom, right, it will simply send that to Jordan, just like that in the middle, you have the chat window.
So let me select a chat window here and the keyboard will come up where you can type, so simply type your message here and then press the CIN icon again on the right side and he will send that message. That part is pretty straightforward next to it. You have the sticker icon inside the chat window, and then you'll have to add stickers by default.
They don't come. So if I just press add stickers here, it's going to give me a bunch of different folders of stickers in different categories. So let's say the CAPY one, the coffee mugs. I could go ahead and press the download icon. And then he will be added. So now if I go back, you could see, I have those available.
I could always come over here, press the plus sign, to get access, and add other ones just by pressing the download arrow and now they will be added here and I could jump between the different ones have downloaded here and you have gifts right here on the very bottom between stickers and GIFS. This is where you could search for them and send different GIFS.
So I'll go ahead and send this one. For example, again, you could always add a caption here or scroll up to add different filters here. This is very similar to adding filters inside of Instagram. You have a bunch of other options here, like adding text and things like that, that we won't dive too far into here, but you could just explore those options here to spice up your images or GIFS that you're sending here.
I'm going to just go ahead and send this as is. Next to that, you have the camera icon. So if I press the camera icon, it will let you send videos or photos right here. So if I just press it, you will capture a photo and I could just press send to send a photo and if I press the camera icon again and hold it in the middle here, it will basically capture a video of what I'm pointing at and if I let go, the message will be available to send here and as you can see, you have more options, some editing options on top that you could play around with like trimming your video here and you could go ahead and add a caption. If you want it to end, then press sent and as you could see, it was sent just like that and finally, you have the microphone option, which you basically could hold, and then when you release it, we'll send a voice memo. So this is not transcribing your audio to text is actually sending a voice memo. If I let go, just like that, it's going to send that voice memo and now they could press play and play that voice memo. If you change your mind, you could actually hold on to any text messages that you've sent video, text, or photos, and you will have an option to start it as your favorites reply here or delete it. If you deleted it here, let me go ahead and press the garbage can. It's been selected. I could do it to multiple photos and videos, press the garbage can, and say delete for everyone or myself, if they haven't seen it yet, you could delete it for everyone and he will disappear. It will say that it's been deleted, but it's a good way to take back something you didn't mean to send, and on the same chat page, you could make calls to that person or to the group here and you could also video chat. Both of the options are on the top right of the page. So if you press the phone call option, you will call that person based on their phone number and if you press the video option, it will do the same thing for video chat. Let me exit here and go to the main page of the app again.
Now, back here on the chat page, let's look at a couple of other options. So you have your camera option on the bottom menu. If you go there, it's exactly what I just showed you where you could take photos and videos. So if you press this and take a picture here, it's going to allow you to send this picture to someone that you choose here.
You could be frequently contacted the person recent chat. Oh, you could go ahead and search, but I feel like it's an easier option just to do this inside of the chat window rather than the camera icon. So I never used the camera icon there and you have your call option. If you jump into the call, the option is going to show you or outgoing calls, or you could press that phone plus icon on top and get access.
To your list of contacts that are using what's an app or create a group call here again. I like to do everything in the chat window. So the app basically just is the chat window to me, where I could do everything I want to, I never use the camera or calls icon, but from time to time, I do use status. So let's jump into status and status.
If you've ever used. Facebook is basically the same process you could do text photo or video status to do a text status, press the pencil icon here, type in the text that you want on top. You could change the background color if you press the top right option and the font option is that T that will change the font and then you could press the airplane icon and he will add it to your status. So now someone clicks my status. They're going to see exactly what I typed there. And you also could do a photo status by just choosing the photo option, picking a photo, or taking one, and then pressing that and now we'll add it to your status here.
Now you could see a couple of different options. Here text and photo status and he's going to say how many people viewed it here and you could press the forward option to send it to someone and just like Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat. These do disappear every 24 hours. As you can see on the bottom here, and you have that privacy text on the top press that you could basically change who sees your updates.
So right here, you could change that privacy on your status based on who you want. If you just want your contacts here or only share with specific people. You could do that. And finally, let's go to the settings option on the bottom of the page, and here you could see your account options, your chat option, notification data on usage.
For example, here, you could see some of the settings that I have here, and if you press your name on top, here is going to let you add a profile, picture, change your phone number and change about and by default, everyone gets, Hey, there I'm using WhatsApp. So you could press that and change it to something else at work.
For example, or type your own, and that's the complete beginner's overview on WhatsApp. If you have specific questions, I do have other videos on WhatsApp. So make sure you search this channel and please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to this channel for easy to follow social media videos, just like this one and I'll catch you next time. Thanks for watching.