Do you only use WhatsApp for messaging, calling, or audio? If so, you’re not fully utilizing WhatsApp’s full potential. In fact, you can use WhatsApp for five different tasks beyond the basic ones mentioned above. This will not only allow you to use WhatsApp more effectively but also eliminate the need for multiple separate apps.
These include making UPI payments, sending or saving files up to 2GB, using AI, following official channels to stay up-to-date, and creating personal notes.
If you use other payment apps while using WhatsApp, you’re just wasting your phone’s storage. The payments feature has been around for a long time and can be easily set up in the settings.
After this, you’ll see a camera icon at the top of WhatsApp’s home screen. Clicking on it will allow you to scan any QR code and make payments. This way, you can use WhatsApp for more than just chatting.
Just like a separate payment app, WhatsApp also eliminates the need to install a separate AI app. This is because WhatsApp now supports Meta AI.
You can use AI while chatting by searching for “Meta” on WhatsApp. You can use it to get information, draft emails or resumes, ask coding questions, or generate realistic images with just a prompt.
This way, WhatsApp eliminates the hassle of installing a separate AI app and wasting your phone’s storage.
You can use WhatsApp as a de facto cloud storage or to send heavy files up to 2GB. In fact, WhatsApp now supports heavy files up to 2GB. With its help, you can not only send heavy files to anyone, but also create a group with only yourself included and save your personal files or photos and videos in it. For photos and videos, you also have the option to save photos and videos in HD quality or in the original resolution in the file format. This way, you can also use WhatsApp as cloud storage.
Many people keep multiple news apps on their phones to stay up-to-date, but you can do the same thing on WhatsApp. To do this, use WhatsApp’s Channels feature. This allows you to follow channels related to your favorite topics or even channels from mainstream news portals that provide daily news. These channels will provide you with periodic updates and links to the latest news on your favorite topics. This way, with WhatsApp, you don’t need to have a separate news app on your phone.
You can also use WhatsApp as a notes app. Its specialty is that you can create notes in text, audio, or even video.
Such features are mostly available in paid note apps, whereas using WhatsApp as a note app doesn’t require you to spend any money.
Create a new group on WhatsApp and don’t save anyone in it except yourself. You can name this group “Notes” and add a corresponding icon. You can also lock it using WhatsApp’s built-in feature. This way, you’ll have a notes app built right into WhatsApp.
In this group, you’ll be able to note important things in text, video, and audio, and you’ll never lose these notes.