WhatsApp is one of the most widely used messaging apps for staying in touch with friends and family. It’s easy to use and works on virtually all smartphones (including desktop computers). It’s easy to use and works on just about every smartphone (including desktop computers), but there are some services on the app, now owned by Facebook, that not everyone knows about.
You’ve probably only used WhatsApp to send text messages, make a few calls, or send photos and videos. Yet WhatsApp can also be used to capture and save ideas, notes, voice memos and even scanned documents. How? Simple, each of us on our account has a personal, and private, space that can be used as storage space. In addition, WhatsApp can also be used to quickly transfer web links, documents, screenshots or other files between your computer and smartphone. Without using any third-party services.
How to turn WhatsApp into a cloud storage platform
To do what you just described, you don’t have to do strange complex operations, just a few steps are enough. The idea is simple: create a “virtual contact” with whom you can share images, videos and documents. Since we can’t message ourselves we have to create a group with only our number as a participant. Doing so is simple. We open WhatsApp and go to Create New Group. We add some random contacts, and give the Group a name. Then we go to the list of participants and delete them from the group, so that only we remain within it. At this point we will have a private WhatsApp archive that is visible only to us and that is accessible from the web (through the desktop app) or from the cell phone. To transfer files obviously just send them to the group where we are the only ones left. Logically we have limitations: for videos the maximum size is 16MB, while for documents the maximum size is 100MB.