At first they were not particularly well received, but now they are almost indispensable for many when using WhatsApp. We talk about the States, which are content that are published temporarily so that they can be seen by others and that give the messaging application a rather social touch. We are going to show you some tricks so that you control them perfectly.
The time that you can see what you share is 24 hours, after that time they are no longer accessible. In addition, now, to know that there is news from a contact, on the WhatsApp main screen you can see a green circle surrounding the image that he has for his account. In this way, it is avoided that you have to constantly enter the states to find out which friend or family member has left something to view.
The tricks you should know for WhatsApp states
We leave you with a selection of options that, to this day, it is possible to use with this type of content from the application of the company owned by Meta. In some cases, they will get you to spawn things that are differentials and, in others, that you can do things that you thought they were impossible. They are the following:
Review the states without the other knowing
Those who publish a state can easily know who has accessed it, something that is achieved through the use of a list where the information appears of which we speak. But, if you don’t want to be in it, you can get it.
The best way to achieve this is to access the folders you have on the device and, within Internal phone memory -within My files-, locate WhatsApp’s own. Now you must use the three-point icon and select Show hidden files in Settings. At this time you will see a greater amount of information, one of the folders being called .Statuses (or States). When you open it, you will be able to see the images or videos that currently exist in the states, as long as they are from your contacts.
Silence the statuses of a contact
It is more than possible that someone posts things you don’t care about especially, but you can’t stop seeing their states and it’s something that makes you desperate. To end this situation, what you have to do is silence them by following these steps:
- Open the application and enter the States tab
- Now, long press on the one with the person you want to mute. A message appears allowing you to perform this action, which you must confirm.
- You have finished.
Prevent someone from seeing your statuses
This is an action that not many use, and it is most useful, since you prevent someone from seeing what you publish (ideal for that, prevention is better…). The fact is that achieving this is not exactly complicated, because once you are in the state creation screen, when using the gear wheel icon and, then, you will see an option that allows you to select the contacts that you have access to the creation by using My contacts except…
Put background music to WhatsApp states
If you want a recording that you are going to publish in this section of the messaging application to have music, you can achieve it. This not available natively, so you have to resort to ingenuity and be clear that the quality of what sounds will not be first class. But, possible, it is.
What you have to do is choose the part of the chosen song in the player of your terminal, for example, in Spotify. Now, Start with playing the video at the maximum volume that your phone allows. In this way, this will be recorded in the background and your contacts will listen to it and, surely, someone will be surprised.
Edit the texts that will be seen
It is possible that on some occasion you feel like give them a new air to WhatsApp states, especially in what has to do with texts. Well, this is possible in a much simpler way than it seems. Do the following once you have chosen the image to share:
- Click on the five with the letter T at the top of the screen and then you can write the text. Now, click on the one with a white check mark on a green button.
- You will see that a sidebar appears in which you can modify the color and, if you select the text without releasing it, you can move it around the screen.
A couple of more tricks in this section that many do not know: if you put asterisks at the beginning and end of a word that you write, it will be marked in bold font. If you do the same with underscore, the effect will be that of italics.
