One of the peculiarities of WhatsApp is that to send messages to someone you have to have their phone number in your contact list. However, for privacy or other reasons, it’s best not to add a person you don’t know very well. In this sense, you should know that there is a secret trick that works in iOS and Android, and that allows us to send messages to someone without having to add it to our agenda. How can you do it? Here we explain it to you.
It is a simple and free method of WhatsApp that you can apply in a matter of minutes to send a message to people who are not added to your contact list without having to save them in it first. Plus, you don’t need third-party apps.
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Step by step to send messages to a contact without adding it
For this WhatsApp trick you will only have to use a web browser, either Google Chrome, Edge or Mozilla Firefox, and then follow these steps:
- Go to the Play Store or App Store and download the latest version of WhatsApp.
- Once you have updated the application, you must enter Google Chrome or any other browser that you have installed on your smartphone.
- In the address bar you will have to write wa.me/, followed by the country code and the telephone number
- If the person is from Peru, the prefix is +51.
- Finally, the address should be as in the example below: wa.me/+51999 999 999.
In this way, a page with the direct button to start chatting with that person will open on the screen. If you are on a PC, you will be prompted to use WhatsApp Web. If you are on mobile, the mobile application will automatically open.
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WhatsApp: how to export your contact list to an Excel document?
WhatsApp contacts are very important data for us. Therefore, when we have a problem with the cell phone and lose the phone numbers that we had saved in it, we have big headaches. In this sense, the best option is to be able to handle and manage them outside the mobile. How to do it? Here we explain it to you.
You should keep in mind that having a phone book on your PC or laptop is very useful, especially in the workplace. For this reason, it is necessary to know the tricks that we can apply to export WhatsApp contacts to an Excel table.
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WhatsApp: know the reasons why your group could be closed automatically
One of the most important features of WhatsApp is that it allows the creation of groups. The safest thing is that you have one with your family, co-workers, school friends, among other people. Although many think that these chats are permanent, the truth is that the company can close them automatically if it notices that the participants have committed some faults that they consider serious. Here we will detail some of them.
As detailed by Andro4all, a portal specialized in technology, WhatsApp will close the groups that have been reported by a good number of members. This usually happens in chats that are made up of people who do not know each other and who only share a common hobby such as soccer, comics, a series or movie, among other hobbies. It is enough that some users agree and that group could be suspended forever. Here the details.
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WhatsApp: how to fix app camera focus?
WhatsApp is the most popular instant messaging application among users with iOS and Android mobile devices. However, this does not prevent it from being prone to errors that affect its operation. In the last hours, a bug has been discovered that shows unfocused and blurred images through the application’s camera.
The updates that WhatsApp receives are to add new functions and, above all, to solve specific bugs that are affecting the use of the application. However, it also causes some problems in certain options of the messaging service. If you’ve tried to take a photo with the app’s camera, but it’s out of focus and blurry, here’s how to fix it.