Can you whatsapp yourself

What we are talking about is this WhatsApp trick that will surprise you. The messaging app commonly used for messaging, calling and sending pictures. But, do you know that WhatsApp also can be used as a personal diary. Yes, indeed. Well, if you don't know how, we'll show you the small trick through which you can chat to yourself on WhatsApp, send notes, photos and other important details.

And yes, you can throw that old paper diary away. Many people often face situation like, if they need to save any important notes, list, password, or link of a website and in such a situation, users send notes to any of their acquaintances on WhatsApp. But the real problem arises when the detail is personal, and you need to save it. It can now be used to chat with yourself as well.

Instead of your number, add the number of the person in the URL with whom you want to ping on the social messaging platform. WhatsApp says that the messages you send to yourself are end-to-end encrypted. But you can use WhatsApp groups feature to accomplish the same. Alright, now you have a WhatsApp group that has only two members —you as admin and your friend. I am sure that you can now figure out what the trick is! It is time to remove your friend from the newly created group. This will leave you as the only member of the group.

The message that you will send in this group, will be delivered only to you! You now have a group only for yourself. You can keep posting small messages as a to-do list to remind you that these are the things that you need to do. Once you finish the task, just long-press that message and delete it. You can also use this WhatsApp group to store shared links.

If you are surfing a web page and you like its content, you can share the link of that page with this group of yours. Chatting with yourself on WhatsApp is useful for multiple reasons. It enables you to save links and videos of recipes, how tos, or DIYs that you may want to go through later. As mentioned, this feature also lets you make shopping and to-do lists and share files across devices easily.

Follow these steps to begin chatting with yourself on WhatsApp. Does WhatsApp's new privacy policy spell the end for your privacy? We discussed this on Orbital , our weekly technology podcast, which you can subscribe to via Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , or RSS , download the episode , or just hit the play button below.

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