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Five WhatsApp tricks that will make your chatting experience a lot more fun

Facebook-owned WhatsApp today has over 1.5 billion monthly active users and sends over 60 billion messages every single day. This means that on an average, one person sends 40 messages every day using WhatsApp.

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Facebook-owned WhatsApp today has over 1.5 billion monthly active users and sends over 60 billion messages every single day. This means that on an average, one person sends 40 messages every day using WhatsApp.

In fact, on New Year’s Eve, WhatsApp set a new record with 75 billion messages sent on that day alone. That number eclipses any other day in its history with the previous record of 65 million on New Year’s Eve 2016 well and truly smashed.

With its users growing by the day, WhatsApp is continuing to push out new features and updates in a bid to keep its army of followers happy. So, if you’re a regular on WhatsApp, here are five hidden features you may not know existed.

Watch YouTube videos on WhatsApp

If someone now sends you a hilarious YouTube video you don’t have to leave the app to view it anymore. A recent update now allows all footage, from the popular video-sharing site, to be viewed directly from within the app.

All you have to do is tap the play button and the video will launch in a floating window which can then be moved around the screen.

The best part is that you can watch the clip while still having a conversation within the app. You can even jump between different chats without the clip pausing or closing.

Add stickers to your photos and videos

If you want to customise a photo before sending it you can now add some unique stickers via WhatsApp.

This is quite similar to what Facebook does through its messaging service. 

To add these effects to your photos you need to first open a chat with someone. Then simply press the + icon and tap Photo & Video Library,

Choose the photo you want to customise and then tap the smiling face at the top of the screen.This will launch the stickers where you’ll now find the time and location options which can be placed directly on a picture.

Send money to friends

If you owe your friends money, WhatsApp has a simple new method to pay them back – without leaving your chat window. WhatsApp recently confirmed plans to bring wireless money transfers to its chat app.

The rollout comes after a beta trial of the new peer-to-peer payment system was trialed on around one million WhatsApp users.

The Facebook-owned messaging app will now push-out the functionality to every user in India – its biggest market, it has confirmed. WhatsApp started to launch a limited service in India, where it has currently holds more than 200 million users.

Delete a message

If you’ve sent something by mistake don’t forget you can quickly delete it. To delete the message simply tap and hold it.You’ll then see the pop-up window with quick links to Reply, Forward, Copy and Delete.

Hitting the Delete symbol and selecting Delete for Everyone will remove the message for good. The feature works for all types of messages, but only if they were sent less than seven minutes ago.

Make sure your stay hidden online

If you really don't want the world to know when you were last online there's a very easy way to stop WhatsApp broadcasting this personal data. To easily prevent your friends from finding out when you were last online you can hide your last seen time.

Here's how to do it — Go to Settings > Account > Privacy > Last Seen.

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