WhatsApp is a very useful tool but it can also be annoying. Photo Shutterstock
We can all on our WhatsApp one or more groups full of people commenting even if a fly passes by, they send uncomfortable pictures, garbage … or those who say hello and wish good morning or good night.
It’s a fact: we have it all “that” group where they put us and it gives us a bit of discomfort to leave.
However, there is no problem with leaving a group. This is something that everyone should accept and not a source of rivalry.
But if for some reason you’re having a hard time getting out, here are some tips maneuver beautifully.
leave on the first day
“Leave the group”: many times, the healthiest option. Shutterstock photo illustration.
There are groups you see from that first day they will be torture. Sometimes we can’t get out because they are for work or practical information that you will need to find in thousands of good intentions and tasteless jokes
But other times, when you’re not in the group, nothing happens either. In these cases, you may run the risk of some initial criticism, but we recommend that from the first moment you think a good reason and politely leave the group.
You may say that you are in so many groups that you cannot pay attention to the messages you receive, that you do not know the phone or directly, that because of your mental health, you avoid entering any group. Surely many will understand, others will be jealous of you because they want to do what you do and others will inevitably comment … which you will never see again.
Mute notifications forever
WhatsApp. / shutterstock
If you are overwhelmed when someone says their child got 10 in math then they come 300 greeting messages for the child, enter the group chat, press the three dot menu and a list of options will open. Here you can choose to Mute notifications and you will have the option to do so for several hours, days or indefinitely.
We recommend that you silence notifications completely, because if someone mentions you in the chat, skip this message the silence of alerts and you get what they tell you.
Archive the chat if you don’t want to see it
Sometimes there are groups that post useless content, but it bothers you. And even if you silence it, there are times that just by meeting the beginning of a message, your curiosity is already aroused and you enter, despite the fact that, in fact, It doesn’t interest you and bothers you.
The problem is, because of the commitment or what they say, you don’t see yourself leaving the group. Well there is a solution. If you archive the group it will not appear in the list of WhatsApp chats, but you will still be a part. To archive a group you do not need to enter the chat. In the list of conversations, tap for one or two depending on the group you want to archive and tap on the arrow entering a box.
When the chat is lost, the same thing happens as with muted groups: if someone mentions you, the chat will be automatically removed from the archive and you will receive the notice to show you what they told you directly.
Avoid belonging to another group
Many maintain school groups to stay informed of developments. Shutterstock photo illustration.
If you are the anti-group type, you can configure WhatsApp accordingly do not include you in new groups. If because of work you are unable to make this drastic decision, you can choose who you want who adds to you and who doesn’t.
To do this, you need to go to the general settings of WhatsApp and enter Privacy. Within Privacy there is the Groups option, which is used in specify who can add you in a group and who is not.
Prevent your phone from flooding with garbage
If you’re not thinking of being part of a group but you’re tired of being accepted lots of photos, videos and GIFs, and find all this junk in the phone gallery, you have two options to avoid it.
The most hygienic and easy is tell WhatsApp not to download the content sent by others, unless you tap it to view it. This can be done from WhatsApp settings, in the Storage and data section.
If there are only one or two groups harassing you and you want to be able to download everything they send you to your phone, you can do heavy chat content. do not show in gallery. To do this, enter the chat and tap the group name to see the information. Here you need to press Visibility of multimedia files.
Here you can decide if you want to see the contents downloaded from chat in question in the phone gallery. And as an added tip, keep in mind that voice memos can now be speeded up twice as fast because they no longer take long to listen.
Source: La Vanguardia – Victor Endrino Cuesta
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