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Thanks to the spread of smartphones, one of the free messaging application now available, Whatsapp, is practically replacing old text messages. The app, in fact, not only allows you to send free text messages to other users who have the same software, but also to send to your contacts photos, videos, and to share with them music and even your location through the geolocation.

The success of WhatsApp is incredible and seems unstoppable, and now this app, bought by Mark Zuckerberg (the owner of Facebook), is the most used instant messaging application in the world. So, since all of your friends and colleagues use WhatsApp, you too have started using it to send and receive messages for free with them to share information, arrange appointments, travels and a lot of other things.

This instant messaging application is really very easy to use and requires no special configuration. And now that you are a WhatsApp user, you are curious to know if you can forward messages received through it, as you already do with emails or regular text messages. Obviously you can. So let’s see together how to forward a WhatsApp message.

Clearly, the first thing you have to do is to open WhatsApp on your smartphone and press the Chat button to see the list of your messages (sent and received) through WhatsApp. From here, select the message you want to forward and tap on Modify (you’ll find the button on the top of the screen). Now, put the check mark next to the message (or the messages) you want to send and click Forward.

At this point you have to open your WhatsApp contact list and select with who you want to share the message, and then reply Yes to the following notification. That’s it! What’s interesting is that you can forward WhatsApp messages not just to one contact, but also to groups (simply by choosing a group instead of a single contact).

From the moment you started using WhatsApp, you really started to save a lot on telephone charges: by simply activating on your smartphone this fantastic, popular, instant messaging app you are now able to get in touch with all your friends, and chat with them almost for free and without limits. WhatsApp allows you to immediately share with them messages, video, pictures and much more.

But now that you get used to WhatsApp and it is an ordinary part of your life, maybe you are a little bit tired of being always connected. Chat requests, notifications, sounds … it seems it never stops. So you are wondering if there is anything you can do to change the situation without uninstalling it. And yes, there is an easy way to solve this problem, and you don’t even need to turn off your phone.

In fact, you can just exit, at least temporarily, from WhatsApp (if you prefer not to exit, you can always mute the notification alerts). It is really simple, and, what’s better, you can come back when you prefer. Let’s see how you can do it. First of all, maybe you din’t know, but WhatsApp does not have a logout option. However, there are some methods to close the app, and that’s what we wiil see together today.

If you are an iPhone user, press twice the Home button of your iPhone. Now you will see a black bar on the bottom, press for a couple of seconds the icon of WhatsApp which, at this point, will start ‘to dance’. Tap on this symbol – to close it and be offline.

If you use an Android smartphone or tablet, there is also another trick, which is compatible for Android and iOS devices. The method consistes in changing the current year to a past one (for example you can change from 2015 to 2014) and then restarting your phone.

When you restart you will be offline from WhatsApp, but you will still be able to receive phone calls, text messages or other kind of messages (email and so on). To be back to normal, you just have to set again the current year from the setting options of your device and restart it. Simple, isn’t it?

Group chats  are one of the best feature of WhatsApp, as they allow you to chat with multiple contacts at once, rendering communication much faster. They are very appreciated by WhatsApp users, and probably you too are one of them and often use this popular function.

If so, please don’t try to deny it, it surely happened that you wanted to leave a group because of arguments or because you simply were no more interested in the topics discussed. It’s normal and happened to all of us. So why did’t you leave that Group Chat? Maybe because you don’t know how to do it. So, today we’ll  see together how we can leave a Group Chat on WhatsApp.

If you are an Android user, simply open WhatsApp, go to your Chat List and tap and hold your finger on the name (title) of the Group you would like to leave. Now, to leave the group chat, select Delete and Exit Group. If you use an iPhone, from WhatsApp select the title of the Group you want to leave. Tap Info, then select Leave and delete Group, and then tap on Leave and Delete.

It is even easier if you have a Windows Phone. First af all open WhatsApp. Now go to the chats screen and press the name of the Group you want to leave until you see a menu. From here, simply select yes on the confirmation screen. If you have a BlackBerry, open the Chats screen and select the group you want to leave. Now you just have to click Exit Group.

If you were the administrator of the Group you just left, another one of the participant will replace you. So, if you wish to rejoin the group, you have to obtain the new administrator’s authorization. In fact only the administrator has the power to remove and add participants of the Group Chat.

WhatsApp chats are really useful. They allow you to chat with friends or colleagues to organize dinners or meetings, or simply to stay in touch with people who live far from you. There are two kinds of WhatsApp chats: Group Chats or broadcast. Using the broadcast, you send a message to several people at once, ideal, for example, at Christmas time. The recipients of the broadcast receive a message from us without seeing the other recipient, and their answers will be visible only to us.

With Group Chats instead all participants can intervene and read what others write. The Group Chat must have a title (which will be the name of the group that all participants will see), and to add participants you have to press the + symbol (or type the name). But how can you join a Group Chat? Let’s see how to do it. Up to 50 people can be part of a Group Chat and, at the same time, you can create up to 50 groups. Each group has one or more administrator and only administrators can add or remove participants.

So, to be part of a Group Chat, you need to ask to the administrator to add you. Another way could be that you to create your own Group Chat, adding the same persons who are in the Group you want to be part of. If you really want to be added to a Group Chat, there is also one last method. If  you are very close to its administrator, you can do it by yourself through his smartphone (obviously if he agrees).

To remove participants from the Group, you have to tap on the Title of the Group, then touch and hold the name of the participant you want to remove until you see the menu. If you use an Android smartphone, from the same menu you can create a “shortcut” of the Group on the home page of your device. If the administrator of the Group decides to leave it, another one of the participants will administrate it, so if the old administrator wants to rejoin the Group, he has to ask for the permission.

Another nice thing about Group Chats is that the notifications of the messages differ from other kind of notifications. So you can choose the tone, the colour of the LED and if to use the vibration. It is important to remeber that also Group Chats messages have the check marks, so if a message has been read by all participants, two blue check marks will appear next to it