WhatsApp tips: How to create and send WhatsApp status update
In order to send and receive status updates to and from your contacts, you and your contacts must have each other's phone numbers saved in your phones’ address books.
WhatsApp latest update: We all know that the Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp allows you to share text, photo, video, and GIF updates that disappear after 24 hours, and that is also end-to-end encrypted.
In order to send and receive status updates to and from your contacts, you and your contacts must have each other's phone numbers saved in your phones’ address books.
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If you want to create and send a status update on WhatsApp, follow these steps below:
- Open WhatsApp > Status.
- Tap: Text to compose a written status update. You can tap Emoji to add emoji or GIFs, T to pick a font, or Color to pick a background color.
- Camera or My status to take a photo, record a video, or GIF or choose an existing photo, video, or GIF from the picker. You can also add a caption or make edits to the photo, video, or GIF, which you can learn how to do in this article.
- Tap Send.
- Alternatively, you can create and send a picture, video, or GIF status update by going to the CHATS tab, then tapping Camera.
Note: WhatsApp supports 3GP and mpeg4 video formats.
View or reply to a status update: To view a contact's status update, tap the STATUS tab. Then, tap the contact's status update.
To reply to a contact's status update, tap REPLY while viewing.
In related news, WhatsApp on Tuesday announced the rollout of an ability to let you preview your voice messages before sending them to your contacts. The messaging platform took to micro-blogging platform Twitter to announce this new update.
"They’re not mistakes, they’re rehearsals. Now you can preview your voice messages before you hit send," WhatsApp wrote on Twitter. The update will helps users to listen to thier voice message and see if the audio is fine for sharing over the instant messaging app. If it's not, they can cancel the voice message and record it again for sharing.
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