Creating a WhatsApp account is still a very common need among Internet users. The messaging app is very popular with users even though it was launched in 2009.This is because the company has been tweaking its application for the past few years and keeping what users demand.
During the last months, WhatsApp has incorporated a large number of options (differentiation advantages) and has also renewed its image. Undoubtedly, WhatsApp has become an essential application to have installed on your mobile.
The question that many users ask is: How to open an account on WhatsApp?
Registering in WhatsApp offers a large number of advantages: from the possibility of talking and chatting with friends, sharing images, files ... or even making a video call in real time .Currently there are more than 430 million users using the application, making it one of the most used applications of the moment.
One of the latest WhatsApp news was being able to use WhatsApp from PC (below I will tell you how to create a WhatsApp account from PC); at that moment the application became a visible, useful tool, adapted to users and available to everyone.Another recent novelty of WhatsApp has been to allow companies to enter with their WhatsApp for companies.
Sign in to WhatsApp
To open your first account on WhatsApp you will need:
- A phone number.
- One telephone.
- Internet access.
With these three things you can chat through the best messaging app, with anyone in the world, of course, who has registered and has an account created.
Let's follow the step-by-step guide to open a WhatsApp account on your cell phone.
How to create a WhatsApp account
To install and create a WhatsApp account from your mobile, the first thing you have to do is download the application.
To download the application you can go directly to the official page of WhatsApp.com or go to your store, to the application store of your device, and search for WhatsApp. In my case I prefer the second.
On the WhatsApp website you can find each of the versions compatible with your mobile device, whether it is Android, iOS, BlackBerry, NokiaS40, Symbian, Windows Phone or any other operating system you have.
If you prefer, like me, to download WhatsApp from your App Store, or application store, do the following:
- Open the application store, App Store, Play Store (Google Play Store, or another that will depend on what device you have).
- Access the search engine (click on the magnifying glass) and type "WhatsApp".
- If you already have the app installed, it will show an "Open" or "Update" button.
- If you do not have it installed yet, you will see a button called "Install".
- Click on it and wait for the installation to finish.
- Open the App that you just downloaded.
- Enter your phone number.
- Accept the permissions so that WhatsApp can access your contacts.
- Open your first chat
Now we are going to see the entire detailed process, explaining step by step how it works. The first thing we have to do is Open the WhatsApp app .
Open the application once WhatsApp is installed. The messaging app welcomes us like this:
We click on Accept and Continue.
Then it will ask us to accept the permissions to access our contacts (it is necessary to be able to send messages to our friends) and also to our images (it is advisable to accept to be able to share images and files with our contacts).
We accept both times:
The next step is to enter the mobile phone and click NEXT. You must enter your active mobile phone because WhatsApp will send you an SMS to verify that it is you who wants to create an account in the application and thus verify your number.
Although it says “Your operator may charge you for the SMS”, it is usually free. They simply notify you because your operator may charge you if you are in another country or in an area not covered by your data rate.
Let's continue! But first I wanted to tell you that you cannot have multiple WhatsApp accounts on the same phone.
WhatsApp will ask you for permission to access more files on your device. This alert only appears on high-end mobiles and is used for two things:
- So that WhatsApp can read your SMS and automatically verify your number, without having to open the SMS, remember the PIN code and then enter it manually. Believe me it improves the user experience a lot.
- To be able to access your backup copies and see if you have any copies of your old messages. Sometimes you can have a backup of WhatsApp chats that you used with another phone number. In this case, you could continue speaking through those chats using the new number.
The same thing happened to a friend of mine recently. He had a Spanish phone number and went to live in Scotland. After 3 years, by not using the Spanish phone (he used it only for WhatsApp and not to call). The phone company canceled his contract and sold his phone number to someone else (bravo for the company).
So my friend bought a new number and when he created his new WhatsApp account, he recovered all the chats that he had saved and now he uses them with the new number.
Before going to how to restore a backup in WhatsApp I want to talk about the profile on this social network.
WhatsApp profile
Although the messaging app is considered a social network, it is not as sophisticated as Instagram or Facebook. I mean that, no matter how much we change our name, our profile picture, or upload a GIF, we will always have the same contacts (we will not be more visible or reach other contacts).
A novelty within the WhatsApp profile are the statuses. It is fashionable to upload phrases for WhatsApp within the profile states.
In the last Facebook conference (yes, the famous F8), the company announced big changes in its three apps. As for WhatsApp, they announced that they want to offer a service of maximum security and privacy in your profile. Both text messages and calls will be encrypted, which will make this app one of the most powerful in terms of service.
Now, by pressing the send button, our data will travel the internet safely.
How to restore a backup on WhatsApp
When you are creating your account and you have given permission to WhatsApp, the app will show the following message. If it does not show it, it means that there is no backup, or that you cannot access it (you cannot find it). If this happens to you, save the backup in Google Drive and it will work for you.
WhatsApp will detect your backup . At that time you can RESTORE or SKIP. We click on Restore.
Then WhatsApp will begin to download the backup from Google Drive to your device, in order to restore the chats. The process is quite fast.
Downloading backup
The restoration will then begin. This process is somewhat slower than the previous one (in fact it can take up to 2 hours or more). Be patient.
The process will load all the messages, all the images, all the files… absolutely everything that you had saved. If you have been using WhatsApp for several years, it is normal for it to last a little.
Restoring Messages
When the process is finished you will see that your last conversations are opened and, little by little, WhatsApp restores the rest of the chats one by one. In this way, you can start using the app you just downloaded without having to wait for everything to be loaded.
Whether you have just created your WhatsApp account (recovering chats from another number) or have simply restored a backup, you will see something like this:
Restoring WhatsApp Chats
See how you can see the message "Restoring files."
When WhatsApp finishes restoring the backup, the message will disappear and you can continue using the messaging app as you left it for the last time.
Incredible true?
In fact, this type of news makes WhatsApp, and other social networks that also think about users, the most used apps of the moment.
Create WhatsApp account from PC
You still cannot open a WhatsApp account online using only your PC, you will always need a mobile.
You will not be able to create a WhatsApp account, but what you will be able to do is create it from a mobile phone and then open it on your computer.
If you access WhatsApp web, you will have to do the following:
Open WhatsApp from your computer
Many readers ask me "how to open my WhatsApp" from the pc.
You will need to have your mobile phone handy to create a WhatsApp account from PC, you will use it during the process.
Many readers ask me "how to open my WhatsApp" from the pc.
You will need to have your mobile phone handy to create a WhatsApp account from PC, you will use it during the process.
- Access web.whatsapp.com from your PC.
- Scan the QR code that appears on the screen with your mobile.
- To scan the code do the following:
- From iPhone : WhatsApp> Settings> WhatsApp Web
- From Android : WhatsApp> Chats> Menu> WhatsApp Web
- From Windows Phone : WhatsApp> Menu> WhatsApp Web
Once scanned, your WhatsApp account will immediately appear on the PC that you have logged in and you will be able to open your conversations.
When you want to log out of the computer, you will have to pick up your mobile again and return to the WhatsApp web section (as we have just seen), and click on log out.
If you do not log out correctly and another user accesses web.whatsapp.com from that same computer, they may see your chats and may send messages to your contacts.
WhatsApp Business
WhatsApp business is an application different from the app for users, which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store, the App Store or any app store on our mobile, focused on companies and small businesses.
Thanks to this alternative application to the one that we all have installed, small business and business owners can talk to their clients using tools specially designed for them.
For example, automating text messages and replies, sorting messages, and easily replying with quick reply messages. Another option that I really like is being able to label each chat according to various categories (for example: new customer, waiting for a quote, pending answer ...).
In addition, through its API, it is possible to send our clients automatic messages with important notifications. If you want to know more you can go to their website.
Advantages of opening WhatsApp on the pc
One of the advantages of opening WhatsApp on the computer is that it is not necessary to download the images and videos, so the mobile is not filled with unnecessary photos.
What I do is open the chats on the computer to see the videos and photos that they send me. If I see that we are interested, then I open the mobile app and download only those that interest me.
This way I avoid having my mobile full of GIFs, photos or videos that are useless. Doesn't it happen to you?
Oh, by the way, even if you configure WhatsApp so that it does not download photos to your Gallery, it actually does download them to your mobile and they are saved within the app. See how my WhatsApp memory is organized right now:
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