In this small but precise guide, we’ll explain to you how to text yourself on WhatsApp and Telegram, two of the world’s most popular messaging apps.
Texting yourself on messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram can be very convenient, especially when you are on your computer and need to transfer a file to your phone. Indeed, many people are interested in learning how to create memos or lists of notes.
Both WhatsApp and Telegram offer a PC version that can be easily downloaded. Therefore, sending messages to yourself is the quickest and most convenient way to transfer content between your PC and smartphone, whether it’s a text or a file.
There are various alternative methods specifically designed for sharing files. Using the apps directly is the quickest option, especially since WhatsApp and Telegram are widely used in the workplace.
Why send a message to yourself?
This whole article begs the question: why should we text ourselves on WhatsApp and Telegram? Couldn’t sending an email to our address do the same?
Indeed that’s true, sending an email to your address would allow you to access files from both the PC and the smartphone. However, emails have many limitations such as the inability to send video or audio files easily. Furthermore, attaching a picture to an email is pretty simple on the PC, but is usually unnecessarily complicated on the smartphone.
The most common case to text yourself on WhatsApp and Telegram is the need to consult the material on which we worked even after leaving the workstation. In general, there are many everyday situations in which learning how sending messages to yourself can be of great help, for example when you want to save on your computer a series of photos taken with your smartphone to keep them.
Is it possible to write to yourself on Whatsapp?
For a long time, WhatsApp did not allow users to text themselves. For anyone who wanted to do so, they had to create a group with someone else and then remove this person, essentially creating a “group chat” with just one member.
Now, however, the world’s most famous messaging app allows texting to the user. To text yourself on WhatsApp you must follow this procedure step by step:
- Press the “New Chat” button in the bottom-right corner;
- Search or type your personal phone number and WhatsApp will automatically create a new chat.
On the other hand, if you want to forward to yourself a message somebody else sent you, here are the procedures to follow:
- Open the chat with the message you want to forward to yourself;
- Press on the message you need and hold it for a few seconds. In some versions there will also be a tiny translucent “Forward” button next to the message;
- Type your name or phone number and press “Send”.
Just like any other text message on WhatsApp, those sent on your personal chat use end-to-end encryption for additional safety.
Your personal chat will work like any other one. You will be capable of accessing media files, links, and vocal messages sent in the past just by clicking on the "Info" button at the top.
In this regard, we must remember that often doc or docx files, created with Microsoft Word, cannot be opened automatically by the application, unlike other formats such as pdf. To work around this problem, you can download an external application that works from file manager.
The latter will take care of the storage of all the desired contents, simply by selecting them and sharing them to the installed application, for example Google Drive or Dropbox. As for Telegram, however, things work in a completely different way.
How to text yourself on Telegram
Unlike what happens with WhatsApp, the Telegram application includes the ability to send messages to yourself and does not need any particular method to do so. The procedure is based on an already present functionality, called Saved messages.
This option is accessible directly from the main interface and allows, in addition to writing new messages and saving them, forwarding conversations and the insertion of files as attachments. By carrying out this procedure from the smartphone, all the contents will also be accessible from the PC, and vice versa.
This is just one of many Telegram features already built into the app. Another great example of Telegram tools seemingly absent on WhatsApp is self-destructing messages.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2022-10-24 11:36:00.
Original title: Come scrivere a se stessi su Whatsapp e Telegram
