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WhatsApp tricks! I need experts!

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Lau1973 · 03/09/2020 12:52

Sorry about my post here, it seems I can't find another place where to ask this question.

I am totally curious about something done over WhatsApp. I tried myself to do it with friends with audio messages back and forth and we can't find the answer.

When I send an audio message, I always record it first using the app Voice Memo. That is basically for my contacts not to see me online like 20 min! I send lots of audios messages daily. And long ones.

This specific person.. sometimes listen to my messages -so double blue tick- and sometimes no double blue tick -just grey- but the person listened to my message because then this person replies back always talking about it. How the hell the audio is "never seen" when I click info?

I tried with a friend on sending me an audio message... then me offline, then me listening to the message, then back online and gets back double blue tick for my friend. Or, being offline again, listening to it, then deleting the audio, coming back to online but comes back blue tick to my friend.

It's curious as this person has other of my audios with double blue tick, and other audios just double grey tick as never seen, but replied.

Bloody curios..

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Bluntness100 · 03/09/2020 12:56

I just turn off read receipts in privacy in the what’s app settings.

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Lau1973 · 03/09/2020 13:01

But that is for text messages as far as I know, not audio messages. Audio messages are always in blue despite the privacy setting. And also, this person does not use that setting as my written messages are ticked double blue.

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stayingontherail · 03/09/2020 18:59

Did you go offline, listen to it, close WhatsApp go back online, open WhatsApp? I wonder if closing the app might result in it not being registered and hence grey ticks.

WordWarrior · 04/09/2020 04:16

@Lau1973 Hi. There's another possibility that you might not have thought of. If the person you sent some of the previous audio messages to was accessing the storage of their mobile, while it was connected to their laptop, they could listen to some of your audio messages, by opening their WhatsApp folder, and playing the audio messages from there instead. Listening to them that way, would mean not opening them in WhatsApp, so the ticks would remain double grey, instead of blue. Just a ( very long and detailed thought. ) Alternatively, you could just ask them how.

CoronaBollox · 04/09/2020 04:26

If you put your phone on aeroplane mode then check WhatsApp it stays grey. I used to do it at work when I had a few whatsapp conversations, check it was nothing urgent etc. That way people haven't seen the blue tick and aren't waiting for a reply/thinking you're ignoring them etc.

CoronaBollox · 04/09/2020 04:28

Also I'm not sure if you listen to an audio through the notification bar when it pops up, rather than clicking in to WhatsApp, would that do it 🤔

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Lau1973 · 04/09/2020 13:36

You can go offline, airplane mode, read and listen to all the messages. Everything will continue as not read, grey double tick, UNTIL, you go online again, AND get into WhatsApp and open the window with the person, even just to look. Everything will go automatically double blue tick.

The question is, how a voice message can still remain as grey and also not seen, when you know the person listened to it, and came back to the window.

I'm just thinking what @WordWarrior said. Might be a chance that you can hear it from your folder. A normal audio voice message has three instances: received, seen and played. Messages from the memo voice app have only: delivered and seen (not played). So.... maybe, the seen may work as played? and as it was played from the phone it will never appeared as seen double blue tick.

I will ask... just want to find out before asking!

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SenorPeabodyEsq · 04/09/2020 13:42

I always wonder why people sent voice messages rather than text. Is there a particular reason for it?

QueenOfPain · 05/09/2020 03:19

@SenorPeabodyEsq Because it’s much much easier if you want to tell someone something long and complex, or don’t want the nuance to be lost in typing it out in long form.

QueenOfPain · 05/09/2020 03:19

Also, sometimes you just miss people and hearing each others voices and intonation is nice.

SenorPeabodyEsq · 05/09/2020 03:36

Fair enough. It must be a personal preference thing. I hate talking on voice mail as I ramble and 'um' a lot, and I really dislike receiving them, since you have to stop what you're doing and listen for the full 2 minutes or whatever. With a written text, you can take in the message in a few seconds.

I would never say anything to my friends who leave voice messages rather than text, because I know for them it's probably a lot more comfortable than typing, but I do find it annoying to receive them.

Could it be an introvert/extrovert preference maybe? I'm an introvert and avoid talking on the phone in general.

Daph73 · 05/09/2020 03:54

As soon as you open WhatsApp, any attachments such as images or sound automatically download to your phone. They are present in your download folder. You can therefore open them, view or listen to them, without ever having to open the message.

user1481840227 · 05/09/2020 04:59

If this is only a recent thing then it's probably a glitch.

I've noticed a few of my chats are only showing grey ticks lately and I doubt those people turned off the blue ticks all at the same time...a couple of them are elderly people also and wouldn't have been messing around with the settings.

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Lau1973 · 05/09/2020 11:12

I hostly can't keep much time over a phone. I prefer to put the voice message and keep doing my work, also myself, walk around and talking, if I have someone next to me. Now I have to use glasses -age thing- but I find annoying to read and type with one finger!

So I love audio messages, tells me more about the people.. their mood, they day... their voices have a lot more effect than a text.

I know it is not everybody's preference. I'm ok by receiving written messages, and I do prefer to reply by audio.

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Lau1973 · 05/09/2020 11:13

*honestly -not hostly

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Thegreymethod · 05/09/2020 19:00

When you get a notification for a what's app message, if you swipe right (on iPhone others may be different) on the notification and read/listen to it that way without going into the app it doesn't show that you've been online and you don't get blue ticks.

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Lau1973 · 09/09/2020 10:51

@Thegreymethodhegrey oh didn't know about that! I don't have notifications on my phone to not get distracted. Not even sounds. But ill try that! thanks!

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Lau1973 · 09/09/2020 10:54

[quote Lau1973]**@Thegreymethodhegrey oh didn't know about that! I don't have notifications on my phone to not get distracted. Not even sounds. But ill try that! thanks![/quote]
Sorry, no idea what that typing was! Confused

@Thegreymethod

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Butwhataboutus · 22/09/2020 19:43

Maybe they're accessing the message on a laptop/computer?

Thegreymethod · 10/11/2020 23:24

[quote Lau1973]@Thegreymethodhegrey oh didn't know about that! I don't have notifications on my phone to not get distracted. Not even sounds. But ill try that! thanks![/quote]
Only just seen your reply but I didn't know either but I had wondered so me and my husband tested it!

HariboHippo · 10/11/2020 23:31

Not sure about audio messages, but I’ve found with normal WhatsApp messages that if I click the notification on my Apple Watch and read it there when it pops up, it doesn’t show as read and stays as unopened on my IPhone. Not sure if that’s a glitch as it doesn’t do it with my IMessages but does WhatsApp.

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