WhatsApp is used daily by millions of people around the world, becoming today an essential communication tool.
In this article, we are going to tell you how to send the same WhatsApp message to multiple contacts at the same time. It’s a simple and safe method: it’s not one of the reasons why WhatsApp could close your account. And it is sure that you have found yourself in this situation: wanting to send a document, an image, a video or any other element to several people and not knowing it, so you have to opt for sending one by one. However, WhatsApp offers you precisely this useful function, which you can do without risking being banned or ending up being considered that you tend to send indiscriminate spam.
- How to send the same WhatsApp message to multiple contacts at once
- How to forward a message without creating mailing lists
How to send the same WhatsApp message to multiple contacts at once
To send a message to several people at the same time, you have several options at your disposal. The first is to create a mailing list.
How to create a broadcast list on WhatsApp
To create a broadcast list in WhatsApp, all you need to do is:
steps to create a mailing list
- Open the WhatsApp app
- In the top right, click the three-dot menu, then click New Broadcast.
- Now just choose the contacts you want to include in your new mailing list.
As soon as you create it, a new icon will appear in your chat list: a megaphone. This is your new mailing list.
And you might be wondering: And what is the difference between a group and a mailing list? Well, very simple: in a group, all members of the group can see each other’s personal data. Yes, it is possible to do it this way, but it is not one of the best WhatsApp group tricks you have.
And it is that in a mailing list the messages will reach their recipients as if they were private messages. They also won’t know that a message is being sent to them via a mailing list.
One of the great advantages of a mailing list is that you can send the same message to up to 256 people. On the other hand, one of its disadvantages is that the messages will only reach the recipients who have us in their contact list. That is: if you add someone to the mailing list and they haven’t added you to their schedule, nothing will happen.
If you have more than one mailing list, you can rename it. Doing so is very simple, all you need to do is:
Icon for forwarding messages
- Join the mailing list.
- Click on the upper part where the number of recipients appears.
- On the next screen, click on the three-dot menu and then Rename mailing list.
- Name it whatever you want and press OK.
How to forward a message without creating mailing lists
icon to forward messages in whatsapp
If you don’t feel like creating a mailing list to forward messages, you can also do it manually. Of course: this way of doing things only gives you the possibility of sending the same message to five recipients at the same time.
To do this, all you need to do is:
- Press and hold the message we want to transfer
- Click on the arrow that appears at the top of the screen
- We choose the recipients to whom we want to send said message
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