What is the best setting for WhatsApp on Android phones?

You can always setup WhatsApp for your own choices, however if you need some recommendation for WhatsApp settings, you will find some suggestions on this page. We also believe that these are very useful especially for beginners of the application. It will also improve your experience with the usage of the application If you have any questions regarding best WhatsApp settings, you can feel free to ask on Appiel. You can find my own listing below with descriptions and definition of terms.

Best WhatsApp Settings for Android

There are two steps to setup your WhatsApp applications. One of those options is WhatsApp settings and the other one is phone settings. You can find information on both types below. We recommend you to check both if you are looking for recommendations to improve user experience…

Setup Your Phone Settings for WhatsApp on Android

There are 8 different settings on Android phones for WhatsApp:
1. Mobile Data
2. Battery
3. Storage
4. Notifications
5. Permissions
6. Set as default
7. Picture-in-picture
8. Install unknown apps

Mobile Data

– Go to Settings > Apps > WhatsApp > Mobile Data
– Ensure Allow background data usage is enabled. (But if you have limited mobile data on your GSM, you will need to disable this option.)
– Enable Allow app while Data saver on. (Recommended if you need WhatsApp everytime on your phone, but if you don’t need it, keep it disabled.)

Battery

– Go Settings > Apps > WhatsApp > Battery > Optimize Battery Usage
– Check the list if WhatsApp is not optimized.
– If it is not, optimize WhatsApp for battery usage with enabling it.

This is going to save your battery when you are really low in power but if you are already sure that you want it to work while battery is low, you should disable optimize for it.

Storage

We recommend you to not to take action on WhatsApp storage settings until you have a problem with the application. Otherwise you can lose your chats and data. Don’t forget to backup WhatsApp before clear cache and data in this section.

Notifications

– Go to Settings > Apps > WhatsApp > Notifications
– Ensure On is enabled. We enabled the on because this shows that you will get notifications from your WhatsApp.
– App icon badges is enabled. We also enabled this option since you will understand that you are getting a notification from WhatsApp.
– Group notifications are disabled. It is because group notifications can be really a pain when you enter a group.
– Message notifications are enabled. This is a the best option for know that you have a new message.
– Chat history backup is enabled. We enabled this backup option because people don’t want to lose their chats.
– Critical app alerts are enabled.
– Failure notifications are enabled. When you send a file or video to someone on WhatsApp, it will let you know if file transfer is failed.
– Media playback is enabled.
– Sending media is enabled.
– Silent notifications are disabled.

You can also click on each settings to see more detailed information about them.

Permissions

– Enable camera. We enable this because if you don’t give permission to WhatsApp to access your camera, you can’t use video call, video recording and also snapping pictures.
– Contacts. The best option is enable for contacts.We allow WhatsApp to reach our contacts because if we disable it, you won’t see any contact names but only phone numbers.
– Location. This is very optional but you need it for sending location and live location sharing.
– Microphone. Please enable this option if you want to use voice call and video call on your phone.
– Phone. You don’t need to enable this but it gives you a fast registration process.
– SMS. You can disable this option after the registration because you will not need it.
– Storage. You need to enable to storage if you would like to share files, videos and pictures from your device.

Set as Default

Please don’t perform any action on this setting because this is not very related with WhatsApp. It is not also something about improve user experience.

Picture-in-Picture

Keep this option as enable because it will give you better usage experience when you are talking people on the application. It is a good WhatsApp setting to improve user experience with the app.

Install Unknown apps

We recommend you to not to enable this option for any application except Chrome, Samsung Internet, any other browsers that you download APKs because you can download malicious datas from WhatsApp.

Setup WhatsApp Messenger Settings on Android

There are various settings in WhatsApp messenger. You can see all of those options below.

Account

You can find account settings below. There are different settings for each purposes on WhatsApp.

Privacy

– Go WhatsApp > Menu > Settings > Account > Privacy
– Last Seen > Select My Contacts
– Profile Photo > Select My Contacts
– About > Select My Contacts
– Status > Select My Contacts
– Read Receipts > Mark this option.

Why did we picked My Contacts for the most of WhatsApp privacy settings. We picked this option because if you set most of those for Nobody, people can think that you have blocked them. We haven’t also picked Everyone because people out of your contacts can reach your information and data.

Security

– Go WhatsApp > Menu > Settings > Account > Security > Disable Security Notifications

We disabled this option because it is not necessary much. You don’t gain extra security with enable it. You only get notifications. There is not also anything to do with it.

Two-step verification

We recommend you to disable this option. It is also set as disable by default when you install the application. If you don’t have someone else that uses your phone, you don’t already need this.

Change Phone Number

You only need this when you have a new phone number.

Chats

– Go WhatsApp > Menu > Settings > Chats
– Enter is send. You will need to disable Enter is send. It is because this can cause a trouble for you when texting messages. You can send messages to people accidentally.
– Font size. Select Medium for Font Size. It is also default WhatsApp setting.
– Wallpaper. This is very optional.
– Chat backup. Enable auto backup to Google Drive.
– Show media in gallery. Enable this option because it will make things easier for you when you need an image from WhatsApp.

If you want to have a simple chat background on your conversations, you don’t also need to have a wallpaper. However if you want some changes at background, you will need to download an app for this.

Notifications

– Go WhatsApp > Menu > Settings > Notifications
– Conversation tones. This is very optional.
– Notification tone. You can setup a different one for WhatsApp.
– Vibrate. We recommend you to disable this option since it can be annoying at groups.
– Popup notifications. If you want to stay away from large notifications on your phone, select no popup.
– Use high priority notification. Enable this setting for immediate message notifications.

About group notifications: If you also disabled group notifications with phone settings as we have shown, you will not need to setup group notifications.

Data and Storage

– Go WhatsApp > Menu > Settings > Data and Storage
– When using mobile data. Select only photos for this setting because videos and other medias can slow down your internet with mobile data. You can also face with high bills, if you don’t have unlimited internet option with your operator.
– When connected to Wi-Fi. Select Photos, Audio and Videos for this option because you are going to have better connection with Wi-Fi.
– When roaming. No media.
– Low data usage. Disable this option if you have high quality and fast internet connection.
Status Privacy
– Go WhatsApp > Status > Menu > Status Privacy
– Select My Contacts.

We have shared the best WhatsApp settings for Android on this page. We are going to share more detailed information for improve user experience on WhatsApp and also provide better privacy options…