WhatsApp forwarding-lock: What's behind it?
Previously, it was possible to WhatsApp message received to all of your contacts forward it. Since especially in recent times, often Fake News and chain letters via WhatsApp have been redirected to, was from the provider, a pass-lock set up.
- Since the Update it is no longer possible worldwide, a message to more than 5 contacts at a time forward.
- In addition, there is another function that highlights the forwarded messages in the Chat. So the receiver can detect whether the message originates from the Sender directly, or whether it is a forwarding.
So you bypass the lock
If you want to send a WhatsApp message to many of your contacts, you have several options.
- The simplest, but most time-consuming method is via Copy & Paste. You can copy the contents of the received message, each Chat manually insert and the message sending.
- Alternatively, the same message several times forward, and, thus, each forwarding the message to five more contacts to send. For many recipients, however, this method is tedious.
- The best method to get a message to many contacts to send the Broadcast function. In this way you can send a message to up to 256 contacts at the same time. You want to send, for example, on new year's day a similar message to all your contacts, so you have to do this in the blink of an eye.
About the Broadcast feature, you can bypass the line lock of WhatsApp
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