How to Use Whatsapp - 2024 Beginner's Guide

WhatsApp is the biggest messaging app in the entire world with over two billion monthly active users and I want to show you exactly how to use WhatsApp in this video now if you're brand new to Whatsapp I'm going to show you the whole setup process or if you've been using it for a while you should still get a lot of value out of this video I'll show you the most useful options inside of WhatsApp so WhatsApp is a messaging app so you could send text messages you could send photos videos you could have group chats you could have voice and video calls too but WhatsApp is completely free to use and it only requires internet connection to use it you can use your phone data plan too if you don't have internet connection but here a couple of the key benefits before we dive into it one is it works really simly AC crossplatform so if you're on iPhone or your Android or on a computer it has the same user experience where iPhone to Android users don't have the same experience when they talk to each other and WhatsApp also really prioritizes privacy so it's endtoend encryption so the message stays between you and the person you're communicating with and in this video I'm going to show you how to get started with the mobile app so if you're using an iPhone you could get this from the app store or if you're using Android which most people use WhatsApp on Android you could use the Google Play Store search for WhatsApp and then download it to your phone you're going to land on the welcome page agree and then here choose your country here and type in a phone number Now WhatsApp for security reasons it's going to require a phone number here to create an account so it does require a valid number because it's going to send you a text message to verify your account but you can use Wi-Fi for everything video calls voice calls text messages they're all going to use Wi-Fi if you don't have Wi-Fi it will use your data plan if you allow it to but do type in a phone number to get to the next step here then it's going to send you the six-digit code so type that for Activation and then I'm going to go ahead and set up a six-digit pin and press done now you could go ahead and set up your profile here so your name is going to go over here and you could tap over here to add a profile picture then it's going to ask you to pull contacts from your phone so you could actually allow this so you could see who has WhatsApp already now here if you look on the bottom we have updates calls communities chats and settings and sometimes they do move these around but I'm going to walk you through the most important parts of this and then at the end I'll show you some settings too you might want to change for better privacy and security for your accounts as well but right now we want to go to the chat window this is the best place to get started if you press the plus sign right on top this is where you could actually add people to chat with so if you want to send someone a text message or video call you need to go ahead and add them here and if you give access here to your phone contacts everyone that has a WhatsApp is going to show up over here I'm using a brand new phone here so I don't have anyone that's showing up from my contact list but they will show up over here and then you will also be able to share an invite link to people that don't have WhatsApp so if you don't see them here they most likely don't have WhatsApp or you could just go ahead and create a new contact press new contact so type in their name and phone number and press save and it's going to add that new contact and then you could start messaging them if you add someone that doesn't have a WhatsApp it's just going to say invite to WhatsApp so that's going to send them an invite message here and then it will send them this text message on your regular text message app for them to install WhatsApp so then you could talk to him on WhatsApp if you wanted to create a group chat you could also do that from here press new and they'll create a group chat where you could add multiple different people again from your contact list here and then we also touch up on the community broadcast and some AI options too as we go through now I jumped into my regular WhatsApp account to show you exactly where to get started here so under the chat page all your previous chats will appear over here so you could go back inside of any one of them to continue talking to that person or to that group in this case I'm going to press the plus sign and start a new one remember make sure you add a new contact here or choose you could see all my contacts here now from my actual phone will appear over here so I could choose them from my list now I jumped into a chat here so I could show you all the different options you have inside of the chat this is going to be the same for one-on-one chats as well as group conversations so the very first thing you could do is you could just type in a message and this is a regular text so you could just press send again it's going to use Wi-Fi to send it if you don't have Wi-Fi is going to use your phone's data plan and that is all it takes to send a message now if I press the plus sign I have all these different options so the camera option here is going to access my camera so if I wanted to take a picture or something this lets me take a picture of it and then I could send that picture or if I want to send a video I could go to the video Tab and press to record a video here press pause and then it's going to let me go ahead and do all kinds of different things like adding captions and all kinds of fancy stuff with cropping and adding text or I could just go ahead and press send like this and it's going to go ahead and send the video like this instead then you also have photos and video library this is everything on your phone that you could choose you could also attach documents on your phone share your locations share a different contact or create a poll here again for a group or an individual conversation then you have this little sticker option if you click this you could get stickers here that you could add inside of your message as soon as you tap them they will appear most of the time you won't have any of them installed so it may ask you to install them and you have gifts here that you could go ahead and add like this again gifts have the same video options as well so you could go ahead and add text and all kinds of different things from the top menu add a caption and then send them like this and it's going to send them inside of that message now one thing I'll show you with messages is really nice you could press and hold on a message here and you have bunch of options as well you could reply to that specific message let's say I want to reply just to this one or the one they send me I could do that I could forward it copy it and I could also delete it here so if I press delete it's going to let me delete that selected message and I could delete it for everyone which is kind of taking it back as long as they haven't seen it I could go ahead and delete for everyone and basically as long as they didn't see that message and they have the latest version of WhatsApp it's going to take the message back and then you have the camera option here let me click this so this is the same thing that I just showed you with the plus sign you could take a photo or you could take a video and you could send it from here then there's the voice memo so if I press and hold here everything I'm saying is getting recorded in audio format and if I let go it's going to send it just like that so be careful with this one this as long as you press and hold it will send that audio again you could go ahead and delete it if you make a mistake over here quickly for everyone okay so these are all the messaging option but most people use WhatsApp to make voice calls and video calls as well again for free so if you click this let me click it it's going to initiate a voice call here so this is just a regular voice conversation and you can see it says end to end encrypted and if you click this video icon it's going to go ahead and initiate a video conversation you could flip your camera here you could turn your camera off if if you want and you could also turn off your microphone I'm going to end the call now let's go back to the home menu I'm going to press the back option over here and as you can see it's going to save all your messages so you could jump back and talk to that same person over here now that a chat has been initiated but I want to show you some of these other options let's go to the call icon here you're going to have the same options if you press this phone icon so if I press it it's going to give me everyone on my phone here that is also on WhatsApp and I could initiate a video or phone call typically I don't do that from here I do everything from the chat menu but you could also create group calls from here and you could add new contacts from here too then in the communities tab here you could create communities here so if you want to see more about how that works they do have a bunch of examples of what communities are and then you have your updates tab so here you could leave a status update so if you press the plus sign you could go ahead and leave a photo or a text status and then I could go ahead and press send on the status and it's going to change my status update over here so if people click on my my profile they'll see my status over here it says at work and he added it to my profile picture like that you also have these things called channels now channels are similar to communities but I'll just click on this WhatsApp Channel as you can see this one has 81 million followers so these channels you could also create your own as well so if you press the plus sign you could find channels there's ton of them here depending on what you like imagine these as like Facebook groups you could go ahead and add here to WhatsApp and you could also create your own Channel again there's communities and channels that are for a very large group of people about a specific topic and you'll also find any channel you follow over here these two I think by default get added so Zuckerberg the reason why this shows up is because WhatsApp is owned by Facebook they also own Instagram that's under the meta company umbrella so these are all owned by the same company and then you also have this privacy option so if you don't want your status to be shown to everyone you could just share it with yourself with all your contacts or you could exclude people as well and finally as I mentioned under the settings there are things that are worth looking at so here what you could do is you could go ahead and Link different devices so I have my Mac for example let's say I want to message on my computer I could go ahead and add that as well link the device here but privacy is worth a look cuz you have a bunch of different options so you could decide who sees your profile picture your status here your blocked contacts are going to show up here any of your calls if you want to silence unknown calls so a lot of settings here that are worth exploring my favorite option is turning off red receipts so if you don't want people to know that you read their message go ahead and change that over here and when it comes to storage and data you could go ahead and decide if any of this media needs to be downloaded using your cell data so you could change all this to Wi-Fi so nothing will work or use your data plan in any way and it will all be connected to your Wi-Fi here that's this option over here and they have this fun options with avatars where you could go ahead and create your own avatars too now next I recommend watching the top tips and tricks videos or watching the WhatsApp AI video to take advantage of the AI tools inside of WhatsApp if you want to take this to the next level but that should give you the big fundamental picture of what WhatsApp is and exactly how to use it I hope you found this video useful please give it a thumbs up and I'll see you on the very next video

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Length: 10min 20sec (620 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 04 2023