WhatsApp has changed a lot in recent years, since Meta has not only modified the main interface of its messaging platform, but has also added new and important tools that the old functions have already passed to the background, as is the case of the green dot or at sign (@) that appears in a group or individual conversation, why does it appear and what is it for? From Mag we will explain it below. Take note.
The green dot is an old function of WhatsApp, which you have activated inadvertently or by chance; furthermore, this has nothing to do with the “Don’t touch here” message, which was a joke that consisted of users pressing a black dot and automatically displaying thousands of characters that the aforementioned application could not process and ended up blocking.
WHY ARE A GREEN DOT AND AN AT IN WHATSAPP CHATS?
Normally, the green dot appears in the group chats of WhatsApp, because when you receive so many messages and if you do not have time to read them at the moment, you activate the “Mark as unread” function, in this way you will know that you should read the content of that conversation in your free time. You activate it like this:
- First, make sure that WhatsApp have no pending updates.
- Now, open the app and press for a few seconds on a group or individual chat.
- The next step is to press the icon of the three vertical points that are located in the upper right corner.
- 4 options will be displayed, choose the one that says “Mark as unread”.
- Finally, the green dot will appear next to that contact.
Every time you receive a lot of messages in a chat and you open the conversation, automatically WhatsApp It will think that you have read them, however, sometimes the number of messages exceeds 100, 200, 300, etc., and in order not to forget to read them, you can activate the “Mark as unread” tool. On the other hand, the at sign appears when you have been mentioned in a group, there is no greater secret.
WHY YOU SHOULD CLEAR THE CACHE OF WHATSAPP
- First clear the cache WhatsApp It will serve to free up some space on your mobile device. Many times this tends to weigh more than 1 GB.
- Likewise, it will prevent the application from suffering errors or certain bugs.
- In the same way, you will delete certain junk files that have only been used to update or install WhatsApp.
- It should be noted that by clearing the cache you will not be deleting documents, much less photos, videos or chats.
- It also does not work to log out of the messaging app. In case you want to do it, you must click on “force close”.
- To delete the cache you must go to “Settings” > “Applications” > “WhatsApp” > “Delete cache”.
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