the best feature in years

With a new feature of WhatsApp you will soon be able to send yourself messages on the app. We’ll tell you why this is the best feature in years!

Send WhatsApp messages to yourself

WhatsApp will soon show your own number as a contact in the app so that you can send a message to yourself. The website WABetainfo, a site that focuses on beta versions of WhatsApp, found this in the latest beta (2.22.24.2). But why would you want to use this (kind of strange) feature anyway?

App yourself with click-to-chat: quite handy

Let’s get straight to the point: the option to send yourself messages on WhatsApp is extremely handy! Suppose you are not fully part of the Apple ecosystem, then your notes between your laptop and mobile are not synchronized either. A private app with yourself is the solution. Think of sending (large) files to your PC or making a shopping list.

You can also easily save all your concert tickets in an app, send important links to yourself or just write down some ideas. Your saved items can then always be quickly retrieved. Handy, right?

Try it yourself now: message yourself on WhatsApp

But did you know that it is now possible to chat with yourself on WhatsApp via an unofficial detour? You do that by creating a group app with only yourself. Read below in this step-by-step plan how to do that exactly:

• open WhatsApp;
• Create a new group app with a friend of yours;
• Give this group app your own name;
• Make sure the profile picture matches your real profile picture;
• Remove your friend from this group app;
• You now have a private chat with yourself.

This homemade function is extremely useful if you want to quickly share messages between your laptop and your mobile and your AirDrop or Handoff is not working for a while. This may also apply to Android users.

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