This article was co-authored by wikiHow Staff. Our trained team of editors and researchers validate articles for accuracy and comprehensiveness. wikiHow's Content Management Team carefully monitors the work from our editorial staff to ensure that each article is backed by trusted research and meets our high quality standards.
The wikiHow Tech Team also followed the article's instructions and verified that they work.
This article has been viewed 69,240 times.
Learn more...
This wikiHow teaches you how to open the Settings menu in WhatsApp to customize your account and app preferences, using an Android.
Steps
-
1Open WhatsApp Messenger on your Android. The WhatsApp icon looks like a green speech bubble with a white telephone in it.
- If WhatsApp opens up to a conversation, tap the back button in the upper-left corner to go back to your CHATS list.
-
2Tap the Menu icon. This button looks like three vertically stacked dots in the upper-right corner of your screen. A drop-down menu will pop-up.Advertisement
-
3Tap Settings. This option will be at the bottom of the drop-down menu. It will open your WhatsApp Settings menu.
-
4Tap on a category to change your settings. You will have the option to browse and change your settings in five categories: Account, Chats, Notifications, Data Usage, and Contacts.
- In Account, you can change your "Privacy" to set up who can see your personal info and read receipts, improve your account security in "Security" and "Two-step verification", change your linked phone number, or delete your account.
- In Chats, you can customize the "Font size" and the "Wallpaper" you're using in your conversations, backup your chats, and view, delete or archive your chat history. This menu also gives you the option to change the function of the ↵ Enter key on your keyboard.
- In Notifications, you can turn "Conversation tones" and "Popup Notifications" On and Off, select a ringtone for messages and calls in "Notification tones", and set up your "Vibrate" and "Light" options.
- In Data Usage, you can view your "Network usage" details, set up your "Media auto-download" preferences, and limit data usage in incoming and outgoing WhatsApp calls.
- In Contacts, you can "Invite a friend" to WhatsApp, or turn on "Show all contacts" to enable hidden contacts.
-
5Tap About and help. This option is at the bottom of the Settings menu. Here you can read WhatsApp's "FAQ" and "Terms and Privacy Policy" or view the "About" page with their product licenses. About and help also lets you check the current "System status" and contact WhatsApp if you have a problem.
Community Q&A
-
QuestionWhat do I do if I can't add new contacts to WhatsApp on my phone?
Community AnswerGo to Phone Settings-Apps-Whatsapp-Permissions. From here, enable Contacts, so that Whatsapp will get access to Phone Contacts and it will recognize the Whatsapp using numbers. If your number and new contact are using different country codes, don't forget to add his country code too.
![Disable the "Message Seen" Blue Ticks in WhatsApp](./images/3276226602--crop-342-184-245px-Disable-the-"Message-Seen"-Blue-Ticks-in-WhatsApp-Step-11.webp)
About This Article
1. Open WhatsApp Messenger.
2. Tap the CHATS tab.
3. Tap the three vertical dots icon.
4. Tap Settings.
5. Change Account, Chats, Notifications, Data Usage, and Contacts settings.
6. Tap About and help to read the FAQ.
