Set notifications for each contact
14 Sep 2015
WhatsApp for Android lets you set custom notifications for your favorite contacts
WhatsApp for Android lets you set custom notifications for your favorite contacts
WhatsApp has updated its messaging app on Android with a bunch of useful new features today, giving users better control over notifications from individual contacts.
The ability to toggle the read status of chats showed up in an earlier build last month, but it’s here for all users now. Long-press on a conversation in the Chats list to mark it as read or unread.
Of course, this feature won’t affect the read status on messages within your conversation — it’s only there to make it easier to spot or ignore them.
Open up a conversation and tap View Contact, and you’ll spot new options for custom notifications. There are settings for vibration alerts, lights, pop-ups and audio tones.
This should make it easier to spot messages from people you care about, without having to unlock your device.
You can also mute conversations with individual contacts for preset periods, just like with group chats — though you’d probably have to be rather rude to do that!
You can now mute conversations from individual contacts
WhatsApp has also introduced skin tone variations for several existing emoji. Long-press the hand emoji to find them in pop-ups. Oh, and there’s a new Vulcan salute if you need it.
Long-press emoji to reveal skin tone variations
Additionally, the latest version also brings an option in theChats and calls menu to reduce data usage when making calls. As we noted with last month’s build, this feature didn’t affect call quality negatively, so feel free to give it a go.
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